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

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (136)	4/20/1998 1:50:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 888

While I am on the doom and gloom scenario, what happened to the hole in the Ozone Layer?? People saying we were all going to be doomed, crops would not grow because of the growing hole in the layer, increased cancer, etc. Where did the hole go????? Personal Contingency Planning Stick to planing for Tornado, Hurricane, Earthquakes, etc. Much more dangerous than the Y2K. In my humble opinion.

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (136)	4/20/1998 2:33:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 888

Skeptic, < For the record, I have never said that the Y2K would not cause problems. I do believe that people love to dwell on the doom and gloom scenario. Doom and Gloom in the media sells. I believe people are causing unnecessary panic concerning the Y2K. I believe they will be proven wrong in most cases. > GEE ... maybe GM should hire you instead of Ralph Szgenda. Since you & Bill Wexler REFUSE to read/rebut the FORTUNE article, I thought I'd help out. Cheryl ==================================================================== Unfounded gloom and doom? Not if you listen to Ralph J. Szygenda, chief information officer at General Motors, whose staff is now feverishly correcting what he calls "catastrophic problems" in every GM plant. In March the automaker disclosed that it expects to spend $400 million to $550 million to fix year 2000 problems in factories as well as engineering labs and offices. "At each one of our factories there are catastrophic problems," says the blunt-talking executive. "Amazingly enough, machines on the factory floor are far more sensitive to incorrect dates than we ever anticipated. When we tested robotic devices for transition into the year 2000, for example, they just froze and stopped operating." Or consider the words of Rob Baxter, Honeywell's vice president in charge of making his company's line of industrial control products "year 2000 compliant," to use computer industry jargon. From what he has seen among Honeywell customers, Baxter fears that "some plants will have trouble operating and will have to shut down. Some will run at a reduced scope. I expect considerable system outages during December 1999 through February 2000." FORTUNE MAGAZINE - April 27, 1998 Industry Wakes Up to the Year 2000 Menace pathfinder.com =================================================================== Why don't you write a "letter to the editor" and tell them that these guys are over-reacting?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (136)	4/20/1998 2:40:00 PM
From: jwk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 888

Sire -- I don't think it is a case of either doomsday or no problems. I think there will be disruptions of various magnitudes for varying durations. I'm interested in looking at how even minor glitches might create ripples of disruptions, and how a population with a lot of already heavily stressed members will respond. I think it is as irresponsible to not consider viable, basic contingencies as it is to run around yelling about the sky loosing altitude.