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To: Norm Magic who wrote (15393)4/24/1998 10:42:00 AM
From: Brian Malloy  Read Replies (1) of 31646
 
To all, Andy Grove of INTEL tells the government they need to get there rear in gear over Y2K. See link to read full text of the article.

U.S. Urged to Speed Its Year 2000 Fix Intel's Grove Warns of 'Ugly' Situation

By Mark Leibovich
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 24, 1998; Page F01

The federal government faces an "ugly" situation if it does not step up efforts to correct the year 2000 programming error in its agencies'
computers, the head of the world's largest chipmaker said yesterday.

Andrew S. Grove, chief executive of Intel Corp., gave an assessment far more pessimistic than is commonly heard from Silicon Valley executives. Congress should convene weekly hearings with each branch of government, he said, to discuss how they are attacking the problem, which threatens to drive computers haywire when the 1990s end.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-04/24/076l-042498-idx.html
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