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

To: paul e thomas who wrote (723)	12/16/1997 11:13:00 PM
From: Gerald Underwood	Respond to of 9818

STORIES OF EMBEDDED SYSTEMS PROBLEMS dpweb1.dp.utexas.edu Gerry

To: paul e thomas who wrote (723)	12/16/1997 11:18:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Paul, I'm not as encouraged as you are about the OMB report. They basically talk about mission critical systems. Not much emphasis on anything else. I also research what Senator Horn has been checking into. Horn's projections are that the Dept of Labor & Energy will be fully Y2K compliant in 2019! Some other departments are equally dismal. Don't know which ones, off the top of my head. But I remember the date ... 2010. Dept of Defense is VERY concerned about GPS (Global Positioning System). I've also been researching GPS. MAJOR problems here .... far beyond DOD. Lots of commercial usage. Time problems, not just navigation. From what I can gather most GPS receivers will have to be replaced. You might have seen my earlier post. Problems with GPS will occur earlier ... in August 1999. Even though the OMB report is more releastic, when push comes to shove ... we aren't gonna make it. There will be MAJOR disruption, economic and otherwise. Bookmark this particular Yardeni site: yardeni.com With initial reports, passwords are required. However about a week or so after subscribers get the info, it's accessible to the general public. Scroll down to archives. Yardeni has a real good handle on what's going on. Cheryl P.S. Email me when you're planning on going to Denver. I'll be going up either 1/27 or 28.