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Aberdeen, S.D.-Area Businesses Unaffected by Y2K Bug.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2000 by Nixon, Lance
Jan. 1--Area residents stocked up on water, batteries and Duraflame fireplace logs going into the new year with its possible Y2K problems -- but they also bought party supplies, perhaps anticipating a new year with no computer glitches.
They ended up using the party supplies, not the batteries and fireplace logs, as the year 2000 rolled in without power failures or computer malfunctions.
Ray Nolte, a manager at Ken's SuperFair Foods, said sales were perhaps larger than usual this past week, partly because people were buying some essentials before the new year arrived. The fear about the so-called Y2K problem was that some date-sensitive computers, software and computer chips in other equipment had not been programmed to read a four-digit year and...
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