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To: threadneedler who wrote (18754)	6/18/1998 3:40:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 31646

'Time running out for industry to deal with Millennium Bug By Seafarer KAY, Seafarer puts his hands up. He did not realise, by a long way, just how serious the millennium bug problem might be. Well, after attending one of the International Group's one-day conferences held around the world in the past few days, he does now. "Might" is the operative word. As the chairman of Meeting the Challenge of the year 2000 in the Shipping and Transport Industry, Robin Guenier, said: "Nobody knows what will happen on Jan 1, 2000." But there clearly is the potential for an awful lot to go wrong. Seafarer doubts that he was alone in thinking the experts who have been sounding the alarms in recent months were hyping it up a bit. As far as the shipping industry was concerned, he thought, perhaps it could be inconvenient, perhaps ships would have to do things the old fashioned way for a while if modern gadgets failed. To an extent this could be the case. On older ships it may be possible to identify the few devices, typically working in isolation, that use embedded chips or computers. And probably it will be possible to work around things if there are equipment failures on such vessels. The situation is very different on more modern ships. On one fairly typical 16-year-old tanker there were 1,800 sub-assemblies to be checked of which 122 were found to be suspect. ... asia1.com.sg

To: threadneedler who wrote (18754)	6/18/1998 3:46:00 PM
From: James Strauss	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

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