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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Hunt who wrote (5919)	6/7/1999 12:14:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

re: FAA Who needs wacky Microsoft conspiracies, religious prophecies, solar max worries, automobile ignition date worries and microwave oven clock panic, ... when we've go the FAA? My belief that "the FAA is lying" is about the only Y2K fact I am 100 percent certain of. You can have reasonable doubts on any of the other stuff mentioned, but how can anyone in their right mind believe the FAA? It doesn't take a very complicated argument to see that economic effects of significant flight reductions could be quite large.

To: John Hunt who wrote (5919)	6/8/1999 8:32:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9818

Y2K solutions present puzzles for investors << By June 30, computers at Unicom Corp. should be ready to operate smoothly in the year 2000. The next day, the Chicago-based parent of Commonwealth Edison Co. will impose a nine-month moratorium on the deployment of most new software and hardware. "We want to lock in once we are 100 percent ready at the end of June, and not have to worry about importing anything," said spokesman Keith Bromery ... more ... >> chicagotribune.com