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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: airborn who wrote (11415)	5/6/1998 7:31:00 PM
From: Dave Twibell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

ARTICLES -- A friend of mine sent me the following e-mail listing several Y2K articles I thought might be of interest. (Sorry in advance if any of these have been posted already -- new to the thread). Dave~ _______________________________________________________________ Year 2000 Complacency About to End: San Francisco Examiner This article describes, among other things, the strong possibility that Ford, GM and other auto manufacturers will have to close down most of their assembly lines, due to their own internal compliance problems, their suppliers' problems, and problems in the infrastructure (e.g., the electrical power grid). At the following link, if you want more details you can click through to the original San Francisco Examiner article (the direct link is too long to fit on a single line of this e-mail message). garynorth.com _______________________________________________________________ Air Traffic Chaos Looms Across UK: Computerweekly News Registration (free) is required to see this article, which is worth reading. Three major air traffic control Y2K compliance projects are being delayed till later than the year 2000. This means the outlook for planes being allowed to fly in the UK after 2000 is increasingly bleak. computerweekly.co.uk _______________________________________________________________ Energy Industry Can Only Replace 30% of Bad Chips by 2000: World Oil The natural gas industry and the oil industry are estimated to be able to fix only 30% of noncomplioant embedded chips by 2000. This points to a virtual crippling of those industries. gulfpub.com ________________________________________________________________ Trains Absolutely Cannot Be Switched Manually Anymore Veteran programmer and computer writer Cory Hamasaki explains how it is simply no longer possible to manually switch trains anymore if the computerized switching systems should fail in 2000. Hamasaki is extremely pessimistic about the likelihood of the switching systems being fixed in time. This points to the virtual crippling of railroad transport in much, if not all, of the United States. At the following link, if you want more details you can click through to the original Dejanews item (the latter link is too long to fit on a single line of this e-mail message). garynorth.com __________________________________________________________________ Some Electrical Utilities May Have to Close Due to Y2K Problems This article contains some truly sobering revelations, especially that the nuclear power industry has barely scratched the surface of its massive noncompliant embedded chip problem. This points to the forced closures of nuclear power plants. techweb.com