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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (8502)	1/7/1998 11:25:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

MANUFACTURING & PROCESS CONTROL FAILURES & PROBLEMS ================================================================ ALCOA, BP, SHELL-EXXON Y2K *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 techstocks.com While the company was testing some of the equipment that controls oil valves in its refineries, engineers inadvertently discovered a host of new problems. "Thousands of terminals that control the [dispensation] of oil have old chips with a year 2000 problem. The chips all need replacing, but the new chips won't fit on the old motherboards," Wengenroth notes. "And the new motherboards don't fit the old valves, so all the valves have to be replaced, too." If the company doesn't address all these problems, it soon won't be able to deliver oil to its customers. techweb.com Production Line Stopped. A small manufacturer of industrial liquid solutions found their production line completely stopped on January 1, 1997. It was discovered that their process control systems were not designed to account for a leap year (1996) and subsequently shut down when the changed from 1996 to 1997. Before company personnel could remedy the situation, the liquid solutions that were in the process pipelines hardened and could not be removed. The company was forced to replace the process pipelines at a cost of $1 million. They were unable to manufacture products for several days, thereby, causing late deliveries to customers. In addition to the cost to repair the pipelines, the company believes they lost three new clients because their shipments were delayed....... house.gov House Embedded Systems Hearings Plant would have tripped. US fossil facility was testing a boiler feedwater control loop for date rollover to Year 2000. .... In live situation, the plant would have tripped. techstocks.com

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (8502)	1/17/1998 4:54:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

Silicon Investor-less By Barton Crockett - MSNBC =============================================================== With a top online investment site and fistfuls of dollars knocking on their door, why are these two brothers shunning investors? They're investment pros on the cutting-edge of cyber-finance - brothers Brad and Jeff Dryer, the Generation-X co-founders of Silicon Investor, a top-rated stock discussion area on the World Wide Web. So why can't Brad get an apartment without having his mother co-sign the lease, and why was Jill - their only employee - very quiet in the morning? msnbc.com