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To: John Mansfield who wrote (3832)	2/12/1999 3:40:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) of 9818

access.gpo.gov '...Willemssen leads off with a review of the government's Y2K situation: "Because of its urgent nature and the potentially devastating impact it could have on critical government operations, in February 1997, we designated the Year 2000 problem as a high-risk area for the federal government." "The public faces a risk that critical services provided by the government and the private sector could be severely disrupted by the Year 2000 computing problem. Financial transactions could be delayed, flights grounded, power lost, and national defense affected. Moreover, America's infrastructures are a complex array of public and private enterprises with many interdependencies at all levels. These many interdependencies among governments and within key economic sectors could cause a single failure to have adverse repercussions in other sectors." "Many of the federal government's computer systems were originally designed and developed 20 to 25 years ago, are poorly documented, and use a wide variety of computer langauges, many of which are obsolete." ...

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