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

To: Christine Traut who wrote (143)	4/20/1998 4:02:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Respond to of 888

General Motors chief information officer, Ralph Szygenda, estimated that GM alone has over 250,000 manufacturing devices on the shop floor with potential year 2000 problems. You're right. <Should people be concerned? I sure think so.> Especially when it's not reporters "hyping" ... but company officials. Cheryl

To: Christine Traut who wrote (143)	4/21/1998 6:10:00 PM
From: Quad Sevens	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 888

Christine: Why will division by zero at year 2000 occur in these interval sampling devices? 00 minus 99 will give a (large) negative number for the time interval. Is zero the smallest allowable value in such a computation? (Meaning: if a negative number occurs, the system interprets the number to be zero.) Why not shut down just before midnight on Dec. 31,1999, then start up again just after midnight? Since the time intervals here are very small, we would then never run into the 00 - 99 scenario. Wade