From: Jon Callas[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 1998 11:54 AM
To: The Eristocracy
Subject: World's Oldest Time Machine has Y2K bug
LONDON (June 4, 1998 8:26 p.m. EDT http://www.nando.net) - 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
Friday.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 January 1, 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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