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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: M. Frank Greiffenstein who wrote (304)10/21/1997 10:32:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
JANUARY 1, 2000: WILL LONDON'T LIGHTS GO OUT?
Among predictions of disaster contained in recent report:
- Banks closing for most of January 2000.
- Telephone lines only operating properly 75 per cent of the time.
- Massive disruption to power supplies December 1999 and following January.
- Stock market closed between 1st December 1999 and 24th January 2000.*
- Ten days of disruption to the postal service.
- Schools closed for four weeks.
- Hospitals only open for emergencies for four weeks.
pa.press.net
PA News, September 23, 1997
*NOTE: Our SEC has already discussed a 2-day "holiday" 12/30-01/02.

CALL FOR PLAN TO SAVE LONDON
For example, it forecasts that no flights will depart from Heathrow or Gatwick from mid December 1999 until the end of January 2000, largely because of the withdrawal of insurance cover.... "This report paints an extremely serious picture," said shadow IT minister Michael Fallon.
computerweekly.co.uk
ComputerWeekly, September 18, 1997

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