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To: John Mansfield who wrote (745)	12/21/1997 6:33:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) of 9818

Rumour on super-large crude carriers Found on SIM discussion board, Topic 11, 'Infrastructure Year 2000 Problems' John ---------- .... 'Begin forwarded message: Just got off the phone with a contact at the US Army Corps of Engineers. He was passing on to me a conversation he had had with an individual whose firm had done a Y2K study on behalf of Shell and other oil companies. The findings: that there was a roughly 30% Y2K failure rate in the embedded control systems aboard very-large and super-large crude carriers (VLCCs and SLVCs), the enormous and highly computerized oil tankers that ply the oceans. There was also about the same failure rate in the embedded control systems found in fuel storage facilities at overseas airports. If anyone can get hard documentation on this, I'd appreciate it. And the clock just keeps on ticking.... Bruce F. Webster, CTO, Object Systems Group Member, Fannie Mae Year 2000 Team Chair Pro Tem, Washington DC Year 2000 Group ... '

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