The tests gave system managers months to look for problems and, if they appeared, work on ways to resolve them. But, state government doesn't just spend its own tax funds.
Federal aid makes a difference in the lives of Wisconsin residents.
Last week, Madison officials were told that federal government inspectors had given the state government's internal computer systems the highest possible grades for being Y2K compliant. When the federal Office of Management and Budget reports on the Y2K readiness of Wisconsin state government, Congress will be told that all 11 major computer systems that run state-federal programs are Y2K compliant, officials said. Readers' Y2K-related questions will be answered in future columns. Appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Dec. 13, 1999. All rights reserved.