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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (328)	4/25/1998 7:54:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 618

I see testing all embedded controls as our biggest challenge in becoming Y2K compliant. '...Answers I am Electrical Engineer at a power plant in Alberta. We are currently finishing the investigating phase of our Y2K program and hope to begin testing in about a month. In this discussion form I wish to swap experiences with other industry players. I see testing all embedded controls as our biggest challenge in becoming Y2K compliant. Answered by David Toope (dtoope@edpower.com) on March 25, 1998. greenspun.com

To: John Mansfield who wrote (328)	4/25/1998 7:59:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 618

R. Martin on embedded systems in healthcare '...I went to a healthcare year 2000 conference last week and St. Jude Hospital of Fullerton Ca tested 600-some mission critical embedded systems--they identified 809 mission critical systems; they were told by vendors ahead of time that 59 would not work, so they did not test those; of 150 devices, they knew dealt with time and/or dates, but they were unable to test those devices because they could not roll forward the date! Of the remaining devices, 71 failed; and of the 71 that failed, 10 had been identified by vendors as having been Y2k compliant! And of those that failed, some identical model devices were Y2k compliant but some were not! I do not have the names and models of any devices that could not be tested due to being unable to alter the dates. Sorry. -Roleigh ourworld.compuserve.com From: greenspun.com