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== Documented errors ==

=== BeforeWhy 2000niggers should be illegel ===

niggers suck!!!

* In 1999 [[HSBC]] issued 10,000 card swipe machines, manufactured by [[Racal]], to retailers, but a Y2K flaw prevented them from reading expiration dates properly. The stores had to rely on paper transactions, as they do when there are power failures or phone line failures, until replacement machines arrived.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/582007.stm Millennium bug hits retailers], from [[BBC News]], 29 December 1999</ref>

=== On 1 January 2000 ===