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

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (269)	5/3/1998 5:34:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 888

Sire, <Your talking about software.> OK, you want hardware? Here's hardware. You certainly are a masochist. You've been losing the debate on two threads. I have NO idea what you're trying to prove. Please tell us already. But, it's given me (and others) an excellent opportunity to rebut your naivete on various issues. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 600 NEW Nuclear Regulatory Commission PC's Fail Y2K (Purchased in 1997) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Although many agencies assume new PCs will be Year 2000-compliant, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently discovered that an order of 600 high-end computers failed to pass its test, and the group is now working with its contractor on an upgrade. NRC found a problem with new 200 MHz Pentium PCs that it bought in January under a contract with Sylvest Management Systems Corp. NRC personnel discovered a problem with an internal clock on the PCs' motherboards while testing the products for Year 2000 compliance. The PCs passed an earlier test administered by NRC, but the August test found that the systems' real-time clock was not year 2000 compliant, said Guy Wright, chief of the end-users support-services branch at NRC. Dallas Semiconductor readily admits that the real-time clocks used in the NRC PCs are not compliant. The company has been manufacturing chips with and without a ''century counter'' that provides Year 2000 compliance, said Jim Lott, senior product manager for Dallas Semiconductor's timekeeping group. The noncompliant clock, which cost 60 cents less per chip, is contained on the board manufactured by EliteGroup. Lott said the differerence appears small but makes a big difference to volume manufacturers when they buy components. fcw.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Recent test at NASA revealed that most PCs cannot properly process Y2K dates. A check of 61 PC models at NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, determined that 72 percent are not Year 2000 compliant, according to a draft report obtained by FCW. In addition to NASA, the Defense Department has cited the BIOS problem as a concern, and the Federal Aviation Administration has identified firmware as a Year 2000 issue. fcw.com ______________________________________________________________________ I'm beginning to thing that possibly you're someone who actually understands the issues, but makes these lame posts to get in-depth, factual rebuttals. Let's other people do the hard work. Cheryl