1. Y2K, Computers, & Ministry How the Latest Technologies Are Impacting the Local Church and the Mission Field

4. Y2K, Computers, & Ministry Y2K 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 Local Church Mission Field

5. 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

6. Y2K How did Y2K get started? Peter de Jager (DEE-YAH-GER) Article in ComputerWorld, September 6, 1993

7. Y2K What does it mean to be Y2K compliant? How to become Y2K compliant

8. Brief history of the personal computer 25 year history Characterized by three “killer apps” Spreadsheets Desktop Publishing Email/Internet

9. How the Latest Technologies are Impacting Ministry Local Church Pastoral Survey Christian Computing Magazine Desktop Publishing Web Sites Presentations Digital Cameras Email Music Chatting Bible Study Software

10. How the Latest Technologies are Impacting Ministry Mission Field Email revolutionized communications! Multilingual Desktop Publishing

11. How the Latest Technologies are Impacting Ministry The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing Problems Rendering Processing

12. How the Latest Technologies are Impacting Ministry The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing Problems Problem #1 Character Shapes EnglishGreek ABCDEFG… 

13. How the Latest Technologies are Impacting Ministry The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing Problems Problem #2 Context Sensitivity  s

14. How the Latest Technologies are Impacting Ministry The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing Problems Problem #2 Context Sensitivity

15. How the Latest Technologies are Impacting Ministry The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing Problems Problem #3 Diacritic Centering

16. How the Latest Technologies are Impacting Ministry The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing Problems Problem #4 Diacritic Stacking

17. How the Latest Technologies are Impacting Ministry The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing Problems Problem #5 Line Rendering

18. How the Latest Technologies are Impacting Ministry The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing Problems Problem #5 Line Rendering

19. How the Latest Technologies are Impacting Ministry The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing Problems Problems #6-8 Data Entry Internal Storage Alphabetizing EnglishGreek ABCDEFG…  …

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21. How the Latest Technologies are Impacting Ministry The “Classic 10” Multilingual Computing Problems Problem #10 Word Demarcation

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23. 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