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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (92)	2/17/1998 2:11:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 618

Year 2000 glitches loom for building systems, too amcity.com Washington Business Journal ------ 'Landlord W.S. "Bill" Garland By now, you've surely heard about the Millennium Bug. It represents a major concern for the real estate industry, and it won't go away with a can of Raid. The problem is this: Many computer programs will recognize the digits "00" as representing the year 1900 instead of 2000. Seems like a technical problem, but in reality it's much more than that. Many building systems are controlled by software that may have trouble recognizing the century date change. Consider that HVAC systems, elevators, lighting, security, fire detection, telecommunications and building access are all controlled by computer. And computers are directed by software. So if the system reads dates and thinks that Saturday, Jan, 1, 2000, is Monday, Jan. 1, 1900, well, things could start to go wrong. <snip>'

To: John Mansfield who wrote (92)	2/17/1998 2:24:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 618

'Y2K compliance in apron services - refuelling, baggage control' From C.S.Y2K; thanks to Michael McCormack John ----- x4.dejanews.com 3&hitnum=2 'I'm told Royal Dutch/Shell has just undertaken a pilot project at Schipol airport (Amsterdam) to look at Y2K compliance in apron services - refuelling, baggage control, all the stuff that happens to a parked plane between flights. They appear to have found that more than 90 per cent of such services depend on equipment that contains - you guessed it - embedded chips. What's interesting to me is that this appear to have been the first study of its kind anywhere in the world. A trawl through the web brought back no hits on apron services that made reference to Y2K. No wonder KLM ain't keen to fly on 01/01/2000.'

To: John Mansfield who wrote (92)	2/17/1998 2:27:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 618

'The chips are down for America's computer systems' From C.S.Y2K ; thanks to Gene. John ----- Subject: Sighting: Newark Star Ledger 2/4/98 From: gene@mainframe.com Date: 1998/02/05 Message-ID: <6bcia1$99b$1@news.monmouth.com> Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000 [More Headers] Lawrence Hall, columnist, devoted his entire column on the editorial page to Y2K. It was titled 'The chips are down for America's computer systems'. He suggested that the $9.5 billion dollar budget surplus be dedicated towards a crash program to fix the year 200 glitch. Overall, a very good article, he even mentioned embedded chips. x4.dejanews.com