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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (497)	11/23/1997 12:06:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) of 9818

Real Estate: For Building Operators, a Taste Of The Year 2000 In '99? nytimes.com By JOHN HOLUSHA November 12, 1997 Engineers and property managers say building operations are no less susceptible to what is known as the "year 2000 problem" or the "millennium bug" than their counterparts in banking, insurance and accounting. It is impossible to predict what some systems will do unless the clock is artificially advanced to see what goes wrong, which is difficult to do in an operating building. The security system, designed to restrict admission on weekends, may shift to a default mode and keep everybody out. The elevator controller may decide that no maintenance has been done in 100 years and lower all the cars to the ground floor as it would in a fire.

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