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To: jan m. who wrote (17519)5/22/1998 11:20:00 AM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) of 31646
 
'Reno, who clearly has been
thinking about Y2K recently, then briefed
reporters on the problems of
date-sensitive hardware in places like
medical devices'


'Today's News

News: 5/21/98
by Jonathan Gregg May 21, 1998

I Am a Convict on a Y2K
Gang

Janet Reno may not use a computer
herself, but this morning she warned that
embedded microprocessors may crash
on 1-1-00. During her weekly media
briefing, a reporter suggested settling the
Microsoft antitrust case so Bill Gates "and
his crack staff can solve the Year 2000"
problem. Replied the attorney general: "I
am not sure that in exchange for the 2000
solution is the way to do it, but it's
innovative." Reno, who clearly has been
thinking about Y2K recently, then briefed
reporters on the problems of
date-sensitive hardware in places like
medical devices -- and electric power
plants. "One of the big problems in the
Year 2000 glitch is that so many
processes that we may not be aware of
rely on computers, have an embedded
chip that times what they do. And trying to
find all the embedded chips is very
difficult." Not to mention fixing them all in
...

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