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World Service,13 May 1998,12 mins

Millennium Bug

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When the first reference to the Millennium bug was made in 1976, why was the world so unprepared? Ian Mitchell of Computer Weekly and Karl W. Feilder CEO of Greenwich Mean Time discuss.

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