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To: Ken Salaets who wrote (6037)	6/18/1999 11:52:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) of 9818

Here's an update to yesterdays Washington Post "sewage" article. This time they expanded the article to include Peach Bottom nuclear power plant problems ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technology specialists said such incidents could become more frequent as businesses and government agencies conduct Y2K drills to ensure that computers that use a two-digit date system will understand the year "00" as 2000 and not 1900. The tests involve not just rolling the computers' clocks forward to Jan. 1, but often include simulating power outages and telephone failures as well as the manual operation of devices. In March, a critical computer monitoring system at a nuclear power plant in Peach Bottom, Pa., crashed when technicians tried to turn the system's clock forward to Jan. 1, 2000. The glitch caused computer screens in the plant's control room to black out, forcing operators to rely on analog gauges ... washingtonpost.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't know if you recall, but last month LA had a well-publicized Y2K test for part of city infrastructure. LOL - LA Mayor got stuck in an elevator when power went out. Cheryl

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