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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (374)5/15/1998 4:37:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (3) of 618
 
[ELEVATORS]

Again elevators are mentioned. It remains a bit vague whether there will be problems in them IMO.

John

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'Mike Mooney wrote in message <355BFD78.CD2@bradford.ac.uk>...
>Stephen Poley wrote:
>
>>
>> The source is personal communication from a consultant who I know
>> well, who advises several organisations on y2k - he got it first-hand
>> from the project manager responsible for solving y2k problems in
>> embedded systems at the airport. The project team got the maintenance
>> organisation to test one of the lifts, not expecting anything to go
>> wrong. When they set the clock forward the lift froze. The
>> manufacturer concerned is Schindler.
>>
>
>Has there been any reaction from Schindler about this? According to
>their website -
>
>http://www.schindler.com/man_corporate/webnews1.nsf/821fc40d0df923eec125651
7002d66ef/a12c08ef59086643c12565a9005c1f94?OpenDocument
>
>- 'in general, elevators and escalators are not affected by the
>Millennium problem as their operation is not reliant on the calendar
>date. Therefore Schindler expects no problems in the functioning of
>Schindler elevators and escalators, or the transmission of their alarm
>calls, at the change of the Millennium.'

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Subject: Re: Electric Utilities vs Fear Mongers
From: "D. Scott Secor - Millennial Infarction Mitigator" <y2k@uswest.net.NO$PAM>
Date: 1998/05/15
Message-ID: <355c1e92.0@news3.uswest.net>
Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000
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