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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (1787)	5/13/1998 7:46:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

<Does anyone know if any Y2K embedded tests have taken place yet? (In industry) I am looking for actually investigations that may have revealed possible problems. I am not looking for "consultants forecasts or predictions", but facts. Anything would be appreciated. Links to the reports and solutions, etc.> You wanted some specific embedded systems problems. Here are a few. Date-Related Problems with Electrical Utilities - REAL SCENARIOS: Message 2552334 Actual failures that Shell-Exxon-British Petroleum found on oil rigs. Message 2721623 Rick Cowles (Y2K Utility Expert) is speaking in front of senate subcommittee tomorrow. You should order his book, "Electric Utilities & Y2K". He has a lot of interesting stuff there. If you want to know about medical device Y2k documented failures (product & manufacturer): Email: Quest@hypercon.com Subject: Y2K Medical Device Report for Healthcare Professionals WORD97 ONLY Contact, Don Butte, V.P. Kraft Foods. They've had a lot of failures/problems found thru actual testing: Message 4391973 Check this FORTUNE Magazine article out: pathfinder.com GM CIO says probem's "catastrophic" on every GM plant floor. GM has a 53-page Y2K Compliance manual with 40+ tests for individual embedded systems. Apparently you have to test several times, cause same test done twice on same equipment, can sometimes have different results. If you're really interested, let me know, and I'll give you link where you can download this from. Electrical engineers and trained plant floor people fix this stuff. Not computer programmers. Please stop posting about VCR's, microwaves, fax machines, etc. That stuff is NO big deal. Insignificant in whole spectrum of things. Cheryl