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To: John Mansfield who wrote ()	5/9/1998 5:16:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	of 45

[INDEX-TRANSPORTATION] - Index to Y2K issues in transportation... ...that I found interesting. Changed 5/9/1998 Contents - General - UK Railroads - US Railroads - Shipping - FAA _____________________________________ General (To be filled in future posts). _____________________________________ US Railroads ' I95 is the major N-S corridor and it runs at capacity.' Some further elaboration on the railtrack problem Message 4316557 _____________________________________ UK Railroads UK: Rail industry bands together to beat millennium bug railtrack.co.uk 19 November 1997 Senior rail chiefs have voted overwhelmingly to create a cross-industry body to solve potential problems caused by the millennium bug. Message 3221037 IEE and British Railtrack training program: 'accredited by both the IEE...' railtrack.co.uk This gives some idea of the status of the IEE. Message 3221163 _____________________________________ Shipping [SHIPPING] 'Ship systems failures & Y2K' Message 4291691 _____________________________________ FAA - Federal Aviation Agency The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continues to be at significant risk of system failure. Message 3791489 GAO report: ' Observations on FAA's Modernization Program Message 3708985 3/1998 FAA - 'Now try to debug something like that!' Found on C.S.Y2K, thank to Jim Cobbs. Sample of production code containing some stuff coded without assembler. 'The problem is that the date functions are not in programming languages, like Fortran or Cobol, but in machine language -- strings of ones and zeros more basic to the computer than even the operating system' Message 3176008 The main concern is actually about the air traffic control It seems that not only the US FAA is in big trouble; but also the UK Air traffic control (CAA it is called I think) : Message 3311151 news.bbc.co.uk

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