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To: Mark Buczynski who wrote (8060)	12/30/1997 3:51:00 PM
From: Mike Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

Oh people like to believe de Jaeger and Yaderni (sp?), those crooks make a living selling Y2K hypes. Yes, I believe there are Y2K problems, otherwise I wouldn't be in Y2K stocks. But the problems are not everywhere as those crooks are leading people to believe. Airplanes cease to fly at midnight year 2000, oh give me a break. Tell that to Boeing. Do they know that there is no clock on airplanes? Do you think all these airplanes flying around have a clock in each embedded computer? And you're talking about hundred of those boxes that control everything from your flight control to the toilet? Just make the problem simple. Even without year 2000, if you design a clock in everyone of the embedded computers, then there may be a problem they get out of sync. So are you going to each one of these boxes and reset the time? And what happen when you fly through time zones? Thanks God, Boeing, MCD, Airbus are not too dumb. The time info comes from the ground and gets relayed to the airplanes via radio frequency. There is only one box on the airplane that gets that info, typically the CMC or Central Maintenance Computer, and the info gets passed around to various boxes using network bus. So if anything needs to be fixed for year 2000, it's the ground computers, and sure they better be fixed by year 2000. But the problems are not in the embedded computers. What other stories do those crooks have? Elevators not open after midnight 2000, bank vault getting stuck. Oh I am afraid to get out of my house after year 2000. Can I propose a simple and stupid solution? How about resetting the clock to 1980 and fool the computers? Oh stories about medical instruments failing after Y2K. ROFLMAO again. I have worked at several top medical instrumentation companies. Medical instruments use the clock to simply log the events when a medical procedure is administered to the patients, so as to avoid lawsuits. There is no operation that depends on the time of the day and date. Let me tell you another scary thing. Do you know that some medical instruments will have to continue to operate even if it detects a RAM test failure? Why? Because otherwise, you have a dead patient anyway. So why do they care about the date and year 2000? So much for comic relief. Back to my boring job.