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

To: bearcub who wrote (8531)	9/9/1999 3:59:00 PM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

bearcub, I just spoke with the hospital, a major medical center in our community. (As a matter of fact, a local tv station is doing a story on this issue, to be televised tomorrow.) Here is what I was told: 1. ALL equipment has been tested and tagged - by last June 2. Bedside equipment is not date sensitive - thus NO Y2K effect 3. All medical communities have worked with all the vendors on this issue 4. There is NO generic Y2K problem Does that mean that a 10-year-old computer in Johnny's basement won't have a problem? No. It means that all current systems in our infrastructure will be fine. As an aside, my contact mentioned a friend's father who had recently passed away in Colorado. The heirs found a huge accumulation of batteries, canned goods, and the like, plus $20,000 in one-dollar bills. That, to me, will be the Y2K problem.