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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical The Y2K glitches start being reported
And it begins, the early reports from England on a particular POS machine. Although this glitch was related to Y2K, POS machines are flaky on the best of days. >There have been some problems with a small percentage (5%) of point of sale >terminals (the card readers in shops that are used to process credit and debit >card transactions). The affected terminals show an error message which simply >needs to be cleared to allow the transaction to be processed. Although there >is a simple workaround, details were not immediately available to all affected >retailers, so consumers were inconvenienced yesterday. Now that the details >have been widely disseminated, consumers are much less likely to be affected. > >The problem is restricted to some of the machines produced by Racal Electronics >plc. Although the fault relates to the Y2K bug, it will disappear on 1.1.2000. > >This is only a minor glitch. It is typical of the sort of problem that it was >expected would need to be dealt with over this period. This problem does not >affect any other point of sale terminals, ATMs, the cards themselves or other >methods of payment, and does not lead us to expect any significant problems in >the financial sector.
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