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To: Karl Drobnic who wrote (17734)	5/28/1998 1:56:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 31646

' John McMillan of CalTrans says that even though microchips in building operations and standard office equipment have many features in common, most embedded systems are unique to each enterprise. In the testing of the chips in their operations, CalTrans has found that two percent are going to be a problem. "That means that if there are 25 billion chips worldwide, we have to find the 50 million with date-aware, date-required, date-processing functions that Y2K will trigger." "The problem is compounded," he said, " because you can't duplicate the embedded system environment for testing like you can a software application; for many devices you can't roll the date forward without destroying the equipment." CalTrans has found that those buildings put up or remodeled between 1985 and 1993 are particularly vulnerable to Y2K embedded systems problems. Embedded systems are often hidden in the walls or machinery. An inability to track down the original vendor is common. "We are finding it is taking us about four hours per device to test out after getting them on our inventory." No wonder the embedded chip issue is of increasing concern. y2ktimebomb.com

To: Karl Drobnic who wrote (17734)	5/28/1998 1:59:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 31646

'...her department was being asked to add embedded chips and contingency planning to their workload' 'One computer programmer told me she was leaving government this summer because she didn't want to be "some politician's scapegoat when this comes down on our heads." She noted that her department was being asked to add embedded chips and contingency planning to their workload. She added, "Lord, none of us know about that stuff!" y2ktimebomb.com