This sounds like the machine at the restaurant has the problem, not the
credit card or the credit card company. Remember, the waitress had to
call it in manually.

Rich Holloway
Systems Administrator
Providence Health Plans
Phone: (503) 574-7457
Fax: (503) 574-8614
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denys Beauchemin [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 10:34 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: That's why 2 k!
>
> X-no-Archive:yes
> I have several credit cards with expirations beyond 1999.  They give
> me no
> problems.  I seem to remember that some merchant banks had problems
> with
> their credit card expiration dates, but that most, if not all were
> fixed.
>  Obviously, yours isn't 2000 ready.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Denys. . .
>
> Denys Beauchemin
> HICOMP America, Inc.
> (800) 323-8863  (281) 288-7438         Fax: (281) 355-6879
> denys at hicomp.com                             www.hicomp.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Michael L Gueterman [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:   Wednesday, 06 January, 1999 12:19 PM
> To:     [log in to unmask]
> Subject:        Re: That's why 2 k!
>
>   I used my VISA Debit card at a restaurant on New Years day,
> and the waitress told me that she had to call it in manually
> as it wouldn't take running it through the reader.  The card
> has an expiration of ??/00 (I forgot the month off-hand), and
> when the receipt printed out, it showed the expiration as 1000!
> I think someones Y2K remidation efforts didn't get enough testing :)
>
> Regards,
> Michael L Gueterman
> Easy Does It Technologies
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> > Behalf Of Walter Murray
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 9:38 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] That's why 2 k!
> >
> >
> > Joe Geiser ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> >
> > : I guess we'll find out in about 360 days, won't we?
> >
> > Maybe sooner.  Have there been any reports yet of systems
> > going down because they used year 99 to mean something
> > special?
> >
> > Walter
> >