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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Personal Contingency Planning
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To: Bill Wexler who wrote (128)5/3/1998 12:35:00 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 888
 
Well Bill, although I'm a little late to this conversation on the SSA and your monthly checks, why don't we look at reality.

SSA began work on Y2K back in 1989-90 and were considered to be one of the more progressive gov't agencies who were farsighted enough to recognize and deal with the date problem.

SSA discovered they had some 30 million lines of code to assess and remediate, which they basically were close to finishing late last year. But unfortunately last summer SSA discovered ANOTHER 30 million lines of code lying in the computers operated in each state that interfaced with their own mainframes.

So this should be a state problem right?? One would think so, except that these computer systems were all funded by Federal dollars and thus the responsibility for remediating them has fallen on SSA.

But they only have less than 2 years left to finish and test their systems.

You can talk all you want about the details of date sequencing in computer programs. However, apparently SSA had enough of a problem to warrant their spending 7 years fixing 30 million lines of code. They only have 2 years to fix the OTHER 30 million.

Aye, there lies the rub, and I'm not feeling very hopeful.

Regards,

Ron
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