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To: E who wrote (12112)	3/2/1998 9:26:00 PM
From: Alec Epting	Respond to of 31646

Interview with author of Timebomb 2000: salonmagazine.com Significant quote: "The thing I find scary is that a lot of the utility companies that are working on year 2000 are working on their mainframe systems -- they want to make sure their billing systems are OK -- and they haven't thought about their embedded systems. It really is very frightening. I've started getting e-mail correspondence from some Deep Throat-style informants about a couple of the bigger telephone companies that are way far behind. AT&T, MCI and Sprint are all dealing with portfolios of 300 million or 400 million lines of code. That's a big job."