Hi NI, one of the local radio stations is devoted entirely to investment information during the day, and actually has a weekly Y2K program. I can't stand to listen to it, frankly, every time I do, I start thinking about heading into the hills with bottled water, canned food, gold coins, and a lot of guns. What you say about the embedded gadgets with ROM is, indeed, the scariest part. I understand that underground powerlines all have them, and no one can replace them because no one kept track of where they were when they were burying the lines. The solution there is to by-pass, add redundancy, and accept the fact that come 1/1/00, the ones that failed will be painfully obvious. hjsimpson has already posted about his nuclear power plant. What makes it scarier is that, as I understand it, if a powerline has a catastrophic failure, it must be replaced, can't be re-energized.
I guess people with pacemakers must not be too happy, either.
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