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

To: Mighty_Mezz who wrote (412)	11/11/1997 10:53:00 PM
From: Steve Rubakh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Doctors in the dock if Y2K bug kills their patients By Giles Turnbull, New Media Correspondent, PA News Doctors could face manslaughter charges if medical equipment malfunctions as a result of the year 2000 computer bug, according to a report in Computing magazine. The magazine reports that NHS trust chiefs could be open to legal action if electronic life support systems fail and cause deaths. According to the magazine, "NHS insiders" claim no-one knows how many microchips in various pieces of equipment might be affected. The Government's Medical Devices Agency (MDA) will shortly issue guidelines for hospital trusts worried about the problem, it says.

To: Mighty_Mezz who wrote (412)	11/12/1997 8:01:00 AM
From: Steve Rubakh	Respond to of 9818

Credit Cards and YR2K bug New credit cards will last into the next millennium By Giles Turnbull, New Media Correspondent, PA News Credit cards with expiry dates after December 1999 can be issued for the first time after major card companies lifted restrictions because of concerns about the year 2000 computer problem. Most cards issued in recent years have expiry dates in late 1999 - but to replace all the cards at this time would have been impractical and expensive. Now, credit card companies Visa and Mastercard have decided that they are confident enough about the year 2000 issue to allow cards that expire in 2000 to be issued. A spokeswoman for Visa said: "The year 2000 problem has been an industry-wide one, and all the major companies have been working together to deal with it. "The restriction on card expiry dates after December 1999 is lifted today. "If there are any rogue systems the problems can hopefully be ironed out." ÿ ÿ

To: Mighty_Mezz who wrote (412)	11/12/1997 10:58:00 AM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

>>The Year 2000 will affect nearly every organization, government agency, business and modern household. Computer moguls foretell the coming disaster: millions of computers and electronically controlled devices shutting down when their internal clocks attempt to log January 1, 2000. ÿÿÿÿInsurance industry executives -- no strangers to disasters of all types -- listed the Year 2000 as the most pressing issue facing their companies in a recent study conducted by IVANS and Lou Harris & Associates... full story: businesswire.com