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

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (914)	1/17/1998 1:54:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Anyone hear the scuttlebutt that Yardeni will likely up his recessionary predictions to "60% chance of a nasty recession" when the OMB report comes out in March?? And we know that nasty "Recession" is merely a politically correct form of the word, "Depression". Watch Asia and Europe very closely. Lot's of discussion and angst over the international repercussions of Y2K. Awareness has been extremely slow overseas and may deliver the knock out blow to Asia and cripple Europe. (Extreme scenario, I realize... But I hope for the best but prepare for the worst... :0) Ron Reece "PREPARE FOR THE WORST. HOPE FOR THE BEST." by Ed Yardeni Message 3051161

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (914)	1/17/1998 7:45:00 PM
From: Josef Svejk	Respond to of 9818

Humbly report, Cheryl, here is the Cassandra link: millennia-bcs.com Roleigh signed up for SI today, so I hope to see him posting here soon. By the way, since you're giving away all these computers, you don't happen to have a laptop laying around that you don't need, do you? Mine's dying. I expect to get cut off any second. Taste of y2k? Svejk (GL-15 applies: digiserve.com ;-)

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (914)	1/18/1998 1:03:00 AM
From: sibe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Some quotes from The Sunset Beacon, a San Francisco district newspaper, January 1998: Year 2000 Could Wreak Havoc in City's Computers "Glitches" Already Showing Up When an SF police officer runs a license check through the Department of Motor Vehicles, nine times out of 10 the DMV is falsely reporting the license being suspended because computers are unable to recognize the year 2000 as a valid date. A preview of what could happen if City computers fail already occurred when software running the Court Management System failed to recognize the year 2000. The "glitch" prohibited police officers from conducting warrantless searches of felons on probation. While some departments may bring their computer systems into compliance by 2000, failure to check other systems could result in employees and the public being locked out of City buildings on the first Monday of the year 2000 because of just such an oversight. A check with the SF Planning Dapartment found this possible scenario when Alton Chinn, systems specialist in charge of year 2000 compliance, expressed confidence the department would have its computers operational by January 1999, but failed to consider embedded chips in the operational systems of the building. "That's just not my jurisdiction," explained Chinn.