cyber-"terrorism"?

[Roland Perry]

In message <00aa01c260aa$0f9931c0$975708c3@oml>, Owen Lewis 
<oml@sysrx.uk.com> writes
>> Quite a few local failures were reported. I know of at least one
>> hospital admin system that stopped allowing appointment bookings.
>
>It's not possible to comment in detail without knowing the full details.
>Prima facie, it is hard to see why this should have been necessary.

It wasn't a Y2K bug (because it was approx 1996) but I've encountered a 
hospital outpatients department that wouldn't make any bookings because 
of a glitch with their booking system where the fault meant that sums 
like <today>+<90 days> routinely gave a clearly preposterous answer (and 
for some reason that kind of formula was the only way they could book 
future appointments).
-- 
Roland Perry