January 25, 2000 Web posted at: 2:45 p.m. EST (1945 GMT) by Bob Brewin

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(IDG) -- The International Y2K Cooperation Center has released a global scorecard on what it terms the "minor" impact of bad year 2000 date code had on computer systems worldwide.

Computer and computer systems worldwide generally fared far better than pessimists expected, but the report from the center makes it clear that some key systems did experience minor problems, which it will highlight in what it internally calls a "glitch list."

The center identified failures that ranged from critical --- such as hiccups at two nuclear power reactors in Spain and faulty credit card transactions in the U.S. -- to minor problems with systems some people probably viewed as annoying and definitely noncritical, such as the "minor problems" reported by the Hong Kong government with breath-analyzer machines used for testing states of intoxication.