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To: E who wrote (14034)	4/3/1998 6:29:00 PM
From: BKrish	Respond to of 31646

WOW! Thanks for the forward.

To: E who wrote (14034)	4/3/1998 7:23:00 PM
From: LarryL	Respond to of 31646

Jason's Mom & All. The following was in a newsletter my wife received today at work. (She works for a large aerospace company on VAFB - They shoot spy in the sky satellites for the USAF). ================================== <"DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME" Year 2000 problems, some are funny, some are not, some are both. The year 2000 problems are not restricted to just computers. Many devices in the home and office are also affected. It was noted that a curious employee did some testing on some consumer devices. He started with a brand new microwave oven in his company's lunchroom. He programmed it for a date of 12/31/99. When it got to midnight, it quit operating. The display went blank, and no amount of tinkering could start it again. He called the local service, and the had to replace one of the computer circuit boards. He tried the same test on some thermostats. Of the three he tested, two of them quit working, and one moved back to January 1900. Of the two that quit working one could not be restarted. He then tried it on his TV at home, which went bananas when the year went to '00'. A friend reported that he reprogrammed a VCR. The device made the change to 2000 OK but could not go back to the 1900's. A British magazine "Computer Weekly," reported a sewage outlet that is controlled by a microprocessor which will work for only a couple of more years because it cannot interpret the tide timetables after December 31, 1999. The moral of this story is NOT to experiment at home with the year 2000 without first contacting the manufacturer or service organization of the device(s) that you are testing. (Source: The Millennium Watch, an MISIT publication from Pratt & Witney's Manufacturing Operations Support group.)> ===================================== I can't verify any of this, I just read it in the above noted newsletter & thought I'd post it for all. I knew about the hospitals & medical devices & the threat they may impose on those dependent on such. But I never thought about the threat to public health due to "tide timetables". What impresses me is the all pervasiveness of this problem. It has seeped into everything. LarryL (Long in TAVA)