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To: philv who wrote (11490)	5/10/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: Lucretius	Respond to of 116834

Sunday May 10, 6:30 pm Eastern Time U.S. machine tool demand rose in March WASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) - U.S. machine tool demand rose 11 percent in March, despite the impact of Asia's financial crisis, two industry groups said in a joint report on Sunday. The American Machine Tool Distributors' Association and the Association for Manufacturing Technology said demand rose to $751 million from a revised $676 million in February. February demand was previously reported at $811.36 million. The March figure compared with $623 million in March 1997. Orders in the first quarter of 1998 were estimated at $2.0 billion, up 24 percent from the first quarter of 1997, the report said. ''Despite the cautions by many economists over the impact of the Pacific Rim economic difficulties, this country's industrial base is committed to forge into the next millennium in a proactive, market-driven manner,'' AMTDA President Ralph Nappi said in a statement. Machine tools are used to shape metal in making everything from bicycles to aircraft. Demand for these tools can provide a leading indicator of the pace of manufacturing. By region, the report said the Midwest accounted for about 48 percent of national demand in March, followed by 18 percent in the Central region and about 12 percent in the South. The Northeast and West accounted for about 11 percent each, the report said. Export orders placed with U.S. machine tool makers totaled 138 units in March, down from 159 units in February. In the first quarter, export orders totaled 451 units, the report said.

To: philv who wrote (11490)	5/10/1998 10:05:00 PM
From: IngotWeTrust	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116834

Phil, I EXPECT mine to fail, frankly. Besides I am concerned about time sensitive databases with a program that advances the clock like that one does. Did you receive any pop-up instruction boxes dealing with that concern during your pre-test execute instructions? Looking forward to your answer. O/49r

To: philv who wrote (11490)	5/10/1998 11:44:00 PM
From: PaulM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116834

Phil, I'm no expert. I'm a lawyer with a cs degree. Mostly do patent litigation some trademark and sofware licensing. I get to work with inventors and other techies trying to protect their work. Am in a decent position to see what the "cuttign edge" is. I'm reluctant to download anything from the net except for an extremely reputable source. Don't know if it's a valid test, but it seems to me that the y2k problem is no problem at all if you think of it in advance. So I'd be really surprised if the issue weren't corrected/correctable on recently made pc's. The problem is that so much was built and created by people whoe weren't thinking y2k at the time. JMO.