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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Personal Contingency Planning -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (122)	4/20/1998 1:52:00 AM
From: WR	Respond to of 888

Sire what you are going to need Jan 1/2000 is a electrical tester to check all your outlets.

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (122)	4/20/1998 2:27:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 888

Sire, if hundreds of articles are not enough to convince you, somehow I doubt we "simple folk" here on SI will make much headway. Perhaps you should start with your own and your friends houses (i.e. VCRs, laptops, etc.) and tell us what you find. Another option is to buy FBN's EZ Sounder product. It senses non Y2K compliant chips using electromagnetic frequencies: magneticdiary.com. It was tailor made for sceptics like you. Everyone else here need not waste their time on such things. - Jeff

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (122)	4/20/1998 9:23:00 AM
From: R. Bond	Respond to of 888

>>I want PROOF that Embedded systems will all crash on Jan 1/2000.<< Sire, Why? I don't recall anyone here ever discussing such a hypothetical scenario. The embedded systems debate involves the facts that: 1.) No one knows a total of how many embedded systems need testing or, indeed, will fail. 2.) The issue has more than one side. The biggest potential danger from Y2K failures of any kind comes from those which are systemic. That is to say they will spread the problem throughout some kind of network such as a supply chain, currency transfer network, financial data provider, etc., which could cripple any of these systems, at least temporarily. If there are many such problems around the globe during a short time span, other problems may develop such as investors panicking or businesses losing credit with which to function. Another side of the problem concerns us as market players and involves perception, not facts. Will public concern reach a crescendo resulting in many pulling there money out of the market? You can figure the results of such an occurrence on your own. Remember, think globally. If the Japanese housewives start taking money out of the bank might we feel some effect? You're welcome to your opinion. But you're asking for something that's impossible with which to form it. Good luck, Bond