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To: Jay Maitland who wrote (13045)	3/23/1998 8:15:00 AM
From: TokyoMex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

You beat me to it ,,;-)

To: Jay Maitland who wrote (13045)	3/23/1998 10:26:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Respond to of 31646

Jay, Thanks for the WSJ GM article. <Chrysler Corp. and Ford Motor Co. said they aren't disclosing how much they expect to spend on the same issue, arguing that the amounts aren't expected to be "material."> I think the amounts will be a little more "material" than they realize (or want to say right now). For example: GM chief information officer, Ralph Szygenda, estimated that GM alone has over 250,000 manufacturing devices on the shop floor with potential year 2000 problems. Maybe they got a head-start on GM, but doubt THAT much. <A Chrysler spokeswoman observed that the company has been making a point of addressing the issue since the late 1980s* as it retooled its factories and upgraded its computers.> WHOOPS! Y2K compliant RTC's (Real Time Clocks) weren't around in late 80's. They were first developed/sold around 1992. WORSE ... some companies are still* selling and building with ... "NON-Y2K-Compliant RTC's. Look what happened to those 600 brand new Pentium computers NRC & NASA got just LAST year. NONE were Y2K compliant!! Message 2833788 It's not just a PC problem. I gotta believe than some relatively new embedded systems have some of these RTC's that ain't gonna work right. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack. For those naysayers who say things like, "most of the embedded systems don't use dates" ... so there shouldn't be any big problem ... check this out Message 3312951 FYI - 286's & 386's are prevalent on the plant floor. Confirmed this with TAVA engineers when I was at SHM. Cheryl