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Technology Stocks : 2000: Y2K Civilized Discussion
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To: John Hunt who wrote (462)8/30/1999 6:04:00 PM
From: John Hunt  Read Replies (2) of 662
 
Feilder Reports: Japanese Government Did Not Know PC's Are Noncompliant Until Last Week

<< Try these for a few facts on Japan :

1. The government has had a Y2K campaign running since summer 1998, and have done a lot of the right things, but until last week, no-one had told them that Y2K affected PCs at all.

2. Only one bank has even started checking their PCs

3. In meetings with some of the key PC manufacturers, it became clear that they have NOT tested the BIOS for Y2K issues (just like the US situation in 1997)

4. The Japanese head of disaster and emergency management told me that he thought Y2K was overhyped, and consequently they have not made a contingency plan (although they could modify an existing plan - e.g. earthquakes or war.)

5. The government's own figures, which will be presented in Berlin, whilst very very impressive, are so inaccurate that they verge on being pure imagination. >>

Shocking.

garynorth.com
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