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

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (1221)	3/19/1998 12:35:00 PM
From: Sandra Simon	Respond to of 9818

*** Congress watchdog wants plan for 2000 bug With a computer disruption in the year 2000 looking more likely, a congressional watchdog group urged the government Wednesday to set priorities and make contingency plans to minimize the damage. But the Clinton administration's top man in charge of avoiding a computer meltdown Jan. 1, 2000, expressed optimism the government's most critical systems would be upgraded in time to avoid being fooled into interpreting the double zeros of the millennium's new year as 1900 instead of 2000. "In some of the critical systems we're talking about, failure is not an option," said John Koskinen, chairman of the newly-created President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion. See infobeat.com