Economists believed January's overall sales were dampened mainly by two temporary factors: the bad weather and the lingering effects of the Year 2000 computer date changeover.
ARTHUR GROSS, Chief Information Officer at the IRS, [has said] that the IRS might fail to fix its [computer changeover to the year 2000] problem and that the consequences of such a failure could be a calamity for the government and the economy.
The truck I drove was unladen, but had we been towing or climbing, the truck's computer might have delayed the changeover until we decelerated, Mr. Johnson said.
John W. Lampl, a spokesman for British Airways, responds: British Airways' changeover to a new computer reservation system took much longer than anticipated.
Both companies said that revenue rose in the quarter, even though many flights were cancelled at the year's end as consumers avoided air travel because of concerns about computer problems related to the date changeover to the year 2000.
In his three years as chairman, he has helped pass a number of laws, most notably one limiting the liability of companies for computer problems linked to the year 2000 changeover, another that puts a three-year-moratorium on Internet sales tax, and others on automobile and truck safety.
The noise made by the changeover is covered by music mixed by a computer-assisted sound board and pumped through about 100 speakers strategically placed throughout the theater.
We report on the current status of, and future plans for, manufacturing technology implementation and initiatives (such as computer-aided design, safety improvement, new product introduction, and reducing changeover times).
To speed the changeover, the new department will have to develop a common computer system for agencies with disastrous track records in managing information, a challenge that members of the transition staff have started working on.
The changeover is complete.
