IBM says ATC computers should be replaced before year 2000

Although the FAA expresses confidence that the computers controlling the U.S. air traffic control system can be modified to work in the year 2000, IBM, which built the computers, is warning that they should be replaced before the turn of the century. An IBM official told Lockheed Martin, FAA's ATC...

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