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The Y2K bug (where turn-of-the-millennium computer systems would interpret “00” as the year 1900 instead of 2000) cost as much as $600 billion to fix worldwide.
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5 Components of Information Systems
The computer age introduced a new element to businesses, universities, and a multitude of other organizations: a set of components called the information system, which deals with collecting and organizing data and information. An information system is described as having five components. list,
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