Y2K, Computers, &
Ministry
How the Latest Technologies Are
Impacting the Local Church and
the Mission Field
Y2K, Computers, &
Ministry
Y2K
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What is the Y2K problem?
How did Y2K get started?
What it means to be Y2K compliant
How to become Y2K compliant
Brief History of the Personal Computer
How the Latest Technologies are Impacting
Ministry
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Local Church
Mission Field
Y2K
What is the Y2K problem?
Inability to make computations based on
dates
 Inability to know the correct time/date
 Inability to roll over clock/calendar
 Inability to store year
 Improper date switchover on February 29 th
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Y2K
How did Y2K get started?
Peter de Jager (DEE-YAH-GER)
 Article in ComputerWorld, September 6,
1993
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Y2K
What does it mean to be Y2K
compliant?
How to become Y2K compliant
Brief history of the
personal computer
25 year history
Characterized by three “killer apps”
Spreadsheets
 Desktop Publishing
 Email/Internet
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How the Latest
Technologies are
Impacting Ministry
Local Church
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Pastoral Survey
Christian Computing Magazine
Desktop Publishing
Web Sites
Presentations
Digital Cameras
Email
Music
Chatting
Bible Study Software
How the Latest
Technologies are
Impacting Ministry
Mission Field
Email revolutionized communications!
 Multilingual Desktop Publishing
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How the Latest
Technologies are
Impacting Ministry
The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing
Problems
Rendering
 Processing
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How the Latest
Technologies are
Impacting Ministry
The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing
Problems
Problem #1
Character Shapes
English
Greek
ABCDEFG… ABGDEZHQ...
How the Latest
Technologies are
Impacting Ministry
The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing
Problems
Problem #2
Context Sensitivity
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How the Latest
Technologies are
Impacting Ministry
The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing
Problems
Problem #2
Context Sensitivity
How the Latest
Technologies are
Impacting Ministry
The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing
Problems
Problem #3
Diacritic Centering
How the Latest
Technologies are
Impacting Ministry
The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing
Problems
Problem #4
Diacritic Stacking
How the Latest
Technologies are
Impacting Ministry
The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing
Problems
Problem #5
Line Rendering
How the Latest
Technologies are
Impacting Ministry
The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing
Problems
Problem #5
Line Rendering
How the Latest
Technologies are
Impacting Ministry
The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing
Problems
Problems #6-8
Data Entry
Internal Storage
Alphabetizing
English
ABCDEFG…
Greek
ABGDEZHQI…
How the Latest
Technologies are
Impacting Ministry
The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing
Problems
Problem #9
Searching
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How the Latest
Technologies are
Impacting Ministry
The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing
Problems
Problem #10
Word Demarcation
Questions?
Web Site
WWW.GRISWOLD.COM/NBC
This slide presentation
Links to:
Ministry Resources on the net
 Pictures from a Charlotte, NC NBC reunion
 A handful of old Northeastern pictures
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