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Article: Trains, Planes, Boston-Area Subway Cars Get Y2K Green Light.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- January 10, 2000
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Dec. 30--At about midnight tomorrow, Amtrak trains will roll to a stop. MBTA subway cars -- with or without passengers -- will come to a halt. The regularly scheduled British Airways flight to London will not take off on Saturday morning, Jan. 1.
But none of this is because the nation's computers are coming apart at the seams. In the case of the trains and subway cars, brief pauses in service are precautionary, just so there's no chance someone will get stranded, even briefly. The flight to London was canceled for lack of passengers.
In fact, if any transportation-related computers succumb to the Y2K flu and perceive the digits "00" as 1900 instead of ...