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August 26, 1998: The Y2K Problem - Edward Yourdon

Aug 26, 1998
2h 31m
Software engineering consultant Edward Yourdon, author of Time Bomb 2000, joins Art Bell to break down the Y2K computer crisis from the programming side after live Hurricane Bonnie coverage from North Carolina. Art takes calls from residents enduring 100-mile-per-hour winds and widespread power outages affecting 240...
Episode thumbnail for January 12, 1999: Y2k Power Grid Problems - Stuart Rodman
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January 12, 1999: Y2k Power Grid Problems - Stuart Rodman

Jan 12, 1999
2h 54m
Art Bell welcomes Stuart Rodman, a researcher who has studied the North American Electric Reliability Council's assessment of Y2K vulnerabilities in the continental power grid. Rodman explains that the real threat lies not in computers, which handle mostly billing functions, but in automated embedded chips found in...
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December 15, 1999: Open Lines - Y2K

Dec 15, 1999
2h 51m
Art Bell opens the phone lines with Y2K just sixteen days away, fielding calls from across North America as anxiety builds toward the millennium rollover. He reports that a Nebraska bank posted signs limiting cash withdrawals to three thousand dollars, sparking the very panic officials hoped to avoid. Massachusetts...
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January 5, 2000: Ham Radio - Wayne Green

Jan 5, 2000
2h 45m
Art Bell welcomes Wayne Green, the 77-year-old editor of 73 Magazine, to discuss a landmark FCC ruling that reduces the Morse code requirement for all amateur radio license classes to just five words per minute. Both men celebrate the change as essential to reversing the steep decline in new ham operators, noting th...

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