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To: Jack Zahran who wrote (16114)	5/6/1998 2:04:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 31646

[COWLES] 'Another eye-opening (and scary) book is Electric Utilities and Y2k by Rick Cowles' 'Doomsday Fears About Y2K Some experts say we're in denial about how dangerous the millennium bug really is by Amara D. Angelica "New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and a dozen other cities are going to resemble Beirut in January 2000. That's why I moved out of NYC to rural New Mexico a couple months ago. The government of the U.S. as we currently know it will fall on 1/1/2000. Period." That's computer programming guru Ed Yourdon talking. And he's one of the more conservative Y2K experts. There's growing alarm in computer programming circles about what is seen as the abysmal failure-out of hubris or greed or both-of American business and government to take the Y2K crisis seriously enough. ..... 'Another eye-opening (and scary) book is Electric Utilities and Y2k by Rick Cowles, available in condensed form on his euy2k.com site. Cowles, a top consultant to the electric power industry, warns there's a high probability that all the nuclear plants in the United States will be required to shut down as a precautionary measure prior to 01/01/2000 because no one knows if these systems are going to function properly. Cowles also reports that four power utilities have discovered that embedded electronic systems failed when they simulated the year 2000 rollover. ' .... techweek.com