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

To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (1996)	6/10/1998 6:26:00 PM
From: Gary R. Owens	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

These are not comforting words (unless you plan on having a very large tax bill due in 2000): techweb.com "...A substantial percentage of the agency's mainframes are being replaced as part of the IRS's modernization. Besides the mainframes, the IRS must ensure that about 1,000 midsize computers and 130,000 PCs can read the year 2000 correctly. If glitches occur when 2000 arrives, "we would just turn the problem systems off and run in a more limited environment," Yost said. In other words, the IRS does not have an emergency plan. "As long as we stay on target," Yost insisted, "we're not going to create a specific contingency plan." ..."