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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: paul e thomas who wrote (7800)	11/13/1997 5:08:00 PM
From: bob	Respond to of 13949

paul, You had a better day than I. I'll be back! Bob

To: paul e thomas who wrote (7800)	11/13/1997 7:09:00 PM
From: megazoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

Paul, <This of course is due to the fact I only own three Y2K STOCKS(IMRS,CHRZ,TPII)> You being one of the veterans of Y2K play, i value your comments enormously. could you explain the reasons why you bought TPII. was it because of its low price or does it actually have good fundamentals. cheers

To: paul e thomas who wrote (7800)	11/13/1997 8:43:00 PM
From: beio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

All, Seeing as I found this on a public newsgroup I don't have a problem posting it here, even though it has names and addresses. It shows the public there really is NOW and in the NEAR FUTURE catastrophic negative results if some do not pay heed to the warnings of the Y2K community. <<The following information was presented at the November meeting of the Energy Industry Y2K SIG, and passed on to us by Jay Abshier, Manager of the Corporate Year 2000 Office at Texaco Inc. Best wishes, Leon Kappelman ----------- Excerpt from formwarded message follows ----------- I am a member of an Energy Industry Y2K SIG (ad hoc) with 19 member companies. Most of us are either pursuing or starting to pursue inventory and assessment of our field systems. Some results are starting to come in. Thought you might be interested. * Four Alcoa Steel Plants * 50% of control systems will fail * North Sea Expro (Shell-Exxon JV) * Platform, Pipeline and Gas Plants * 1200 systems identified, 12% failure rate * BP Refinery, Grangemouth, UK * 94 systems identified * Couldn't find vendor for 20 * 74 assessed * 3 will fail, 2 will cause shutdown Jay Abshier Mgr- Corporate Year 2000 Office Texaco Inc Bellaire, Texas ------------------------------------------------------------------------>> Jack