Year 2000 Information Campaign (University of Michigan) website 1997-2000

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Year 2000 Information Campaign (University of Michigan) website 1997-2000

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-02105?rgn=main;view=text

The Year 2000 Information Campaign was formed as part of the University’s concern and overall plan to insure that the information systems used on campus would not be affected by the "Millennium Bug"-- the possiblility thtat computer systems would not properly process date values with the turnof the century. Records include the Year 2000 Information Campaign website as of Nov. 2000. The website includes information created to assist university units in understanding the year 2000 problem and a methodology for the assessment of information systems. The website includes memoranda from executive officers, quarterly reports, a white paper, and a series of announcements under the title "Bug Bytes."

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The Year 2000 Information Campaign was formed as part of the university's concern and overall plan to insure that the information systems used on campus would not be effected by the "Millennium Bug." The Millennium Bug or the "Year 2000 Problem" (Y2K) referred to administrative systems designed circa 1970s. Disk storage space was considered expensive at this time and was a factor in the design of systems. As a way to decrease the amount of storage space used, programmers limited the...