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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (48)	10/22/1997 7:46:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) of 411

UTILITIES & POWER PLANTS: Embedded Systems (Revised 10/22/97) ================================================================ Power grid problems. Hawaiian Electric Company ran tests for its Year 2000 compliance in a simulator and found that "it simply stopped working". Part of its generation and transmission system would stop, and part would deliver power "at higher frequencies". cv.nrao.edu Aug '97 Power Plant Failure. Embedded controller test shuts down 500 MW power plant.... exchange2000.com Control systems in power plants,T&D, and offices all depend on "embedded software" that might fail at the turn of the century. This "Year 2000 Problem" is quite different from the well-publicized Y2K problem in utility business software applications running on mainframe computers. The impact of embedded systems failure, while not known, could potentially be severe and widespread. epri.com *Y2K Electric Power Research Institute - MUST READ* exchange2000.com Doom & Gloom - But a lotta truth & excellent links here: garynorth.com

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