'the real ticking time bombs'
'But he's not, mostly because there are so many things that are out of his control: specifically, the embedded chips that reside within mainframes, servers, power grids and telephone circuit switches, to name a few.
These embedded microprocessors, Neuzil would argue, are the real ticking time bombs, not the software programs. "The embedded chips are made from different manufacturers around the world," says Neuzil, senior vice president of the Production Systems Division at The Options Clearing Corp., in Chicago. "We don't know where they are coming from, and we can't look at the code on the chip."
As a result, the first shot of even knowing where these microchip land mines lie in an organization will come on Jan. 1, 2000. Therefore, OCC has lined up two disaster recovery sites, the company is accepting power feeds from two separate grids, and it is buying digital cell phones that double as walkie-talkies. . .
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