The Oldest Year 2000 Problem
From the RISKS archives.
The oldest time machine in the world destined to suffer from the millennium
bug has been found in a museum in Liverpool in northwest England, it was
reported [...]. The 400-year-old instrument, which predicts the position
of the planets, will stop working at the dawn of the new millennium, unable
to accept the date of 1 Jan 2000, like many unadjusted computers around the
world, museum curators said. The equatorium, built by an unknown craftsman
in 1600, predicts the position of the Sun, Moon, other planets and even
eclipses through a system of rotating discs and arms. But the last date
inscribed was 1999. "It must have seemed like an eternity at the time," said
curator Martin Suggett.
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