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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (563)	4/15/1998 9:27:00 AM
From: Hands Off	Respond to of 810

Hi - Nothing really new here but the following has more evidence of what we already know - good general info on Y2K to boot: zdnet.com A few examples: Y2000: Zero Hour May Already Be Here By Toni Savage Unfortunately, the problem is greater than just PCs and motherboards. Any electronic equipment may be vulnerable. Some Uninterruptible Power Supplies use a time differential measurement to determine what the current power level is, and whether to switch on. An electric power company in England thought it had fixed its software for Y2K compliance, and tested the application on one generator. The generator switched off because the temperature regulator was taking a measurement over a time period that spanned the Year 2000. Many such issues are merely problems with the calculation of elapsed time, so recommending that the client test every electronic device by shutting it down well before midnight, Dec. 31, 1999, is a very good idea. The same problem can even zap you in embedded systems. Colin Johnson of Automation 2000, a company based in England devoted to rooting out and fixing Y2000 embedded system problems, has already seen one system that deletes new programs for a process-control robot. When new material is saved with a date above 2000, the system deletes the new programs because it assumes that these are ancient 1900 programs. Marshall