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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 (136)	2/27/1998 1:44:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 618

City Of Beverly: help needed on '"hidden" stuff, imbedded chips, traffic controllers, police and fire equipment' Typical request for help from local government John ______________ Hello all, As a member of the (now defunct) City Of Beverly Computer Commission, I have been asked to look into the Y2K issues Beverly may face. Now, I am not to concerned about the computer department itself. They are doing a fine audit now,but I want to help with the "hidden" stuff, imbedded chips, traffic controllers, police and fire equipment, JIT delivery vendors, elevators, etc. Is anyone else looking at local towns and cities and the impact of Y2K on them? We want to meet with department heads, educate them to potential issues, help them develop an audit of Y2K related equipment and services, and draft compliance letters for them to send to vendors. Any help would be appreciated. P.S. can anyone point me to a Y2K disaster plan hospitals are doing for social services, or maybe a Civil Defense plan? Thanks Gardner -- I read it in Wired, so it's not like i'm spouting noxious gibberish. - rone __________________ From: "Gardner S. Trask III" <trask@world.std.com> Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000,alt.culture.gard-trask Subject: Help! Y@K and municipal governments Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:15:50 -0500

To: John Mansfield who wrote (136)	2/27/1998 1:54:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 618

Utilities: 'Their solution is if something breaks they are going to run it manually' Dialog on Cowles 'Y2K STATE OF THE INDUSTRY MESSAGE' of several days ago. John ______________ >Rick Cowles (rcowles@waterw.com) wrote: > ><snip> > >: Not one electric company has started a serious remediation effort on its >: embedded controls. Not one. Yes, there's been some testing going on, and : a few pilot projects here and there, but for the most part it is still: business-as-usual, as if there were 97 months to go, not 97 weeks. > ><snip> > >I am currently working at a large utility on their y2k effort. From the >mouth of the y2k project leader, came the statement that they are NOT going to test ANY embedded controls in the plants. Their solution is if something breaks they are going to run it manually. I could not believe that statement when I heard it. Apparently management believes it can be done and I'm sure they haven't asked the opinions of the people who really know. > >-- >Gary Nutbeam - reformed MS bigot Whoa, jump back. Read the last DC Y2K Weather Report. BRI looked at 12 generating plants, found serious problems in addition to inconveniances, they found some that they labeled a threat to life. cory hamasaki I'm guessing, boiler explosions. ___________ From: kiyoinc@ibm.net (cory hamasaki) Subject: Re: Y2K STATE OF THE INDUSTRY MESSAGE - Electric Companies