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"Mormon" Solution to Y2K problem was ignored

If anyone had paid attention to "a group of Mormons in the late '50s who wanted to enlist the newfangled [COBOL] machines in their massive genealogy project", we wouldn't be facing the Y2K problem now, says the current issue of Time magazine.

Mormons and the 'End of the World'

LDS Senator Robert Bennett (R, UT), who heads the Senate's Year 2000 committee, sez panicky bank runs could equal computer-generated bank problems. In response, the Fed plans to print up oh, say, $75 billion or so in extra bank notes this year.



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