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

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (6703)	7/18/1999 1:44:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

<Nothing to do with Y TOO KAY. It was a fire John!!> No. It was a dropped tool that started this whole thing. <And you guys think the Y too Kay bug could knock out services for weeks. Yep, okay...whatever...> What followed was a series of failures that revealed the fragility of the complex communication systems society takes for granted ... The breakdown left Barry Gutteridge, Toronto's commissioner of works and emergency services, shaken about the city's vulnerability ... Constable Don Petrie, who works in the Eaton Centre, said the phone failure gave police "a bit of a taste" of what could happen if the millennium bug wipes out computer systems on January 1. Message 10549003 ===================================================== "... we should also obviously expect that we will have a large number, possibly, of what would be manageable failures taken one at a time, which will overwhelm the normal emergency response processes when they happen all at once ... we may have so many problems in localities across the country that we can't be everywhere at once." John Koskinen, Chair - President's Council on Y2K Conversion Transcript, APEC Summit, May 4, 1999 United States Information Agency Cheryl P.S. Cheeky Kid - Instead of trying to berate John, why don't you write to Toronto's commissioner of works & emergency services and that Toronto police constable and tell them that they're being paranoid and that this Y TOO KAY stuff is nonsense. I'm sure they'd appreciate hearing from you.