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To: John Mansfield who wrote (71)	2/5/1998 2:00:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (2) of 618

C.S.Y2K traffic lane info and video Subject: Re: Y2K and Emergency Services Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 06:11:28 GMT '>...... What if >there was a traffic control center like there is in Minneapolis where >humans can control metering and lane use signaling? Hah. Something I can actually respond to. The MnDot traffic control center is fed traffic lane info and video (from pole-mounted cameras) via _buried_ 386-based computer systems. The software was incredibly carefully written, because it couldn't crash -- there's no way, short of digging the damn things out of a concrete pylon, to reboot them or reset their clock. And they all have circa 1990 BIOS chips, which are very probably non-compliant. Damn. Another thing to worry about. -- Chip Aspnes'

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