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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Woas who wrote (12010)	6/21/1998 6:50:00 PM
From: Steve Woas	Respond to of 13949

Russia Atomic Ministry delays Y2K fix until 2000: canoe.ca

To: Steve Woas who wrote (12010)	6/21/1998 9:18:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

The invention, which has been welcomed by Gwynneth Flower, head of the government's Action 2000 campaign, is designed to detect the millennium bug in the billions of embedded systems hidden away in buildings around the world. I wonder if it could fit inside a Timex watch? [Sorry, FBN joke (gg)] Seriously, it would be great to have an easy way to find embedded chips, but what if you have to disassemble a complex machine to get at it? Assuming you can disassemble it, what if, after removing it, you find the company that made it went out of business? Assuming the company is still in business, what if they chip has to be custom programmed? Assuming you can custom program it, what if the surrounding chips must now also be redesigned or replaced? Assuming you can get all the surrounding chips to work with the new chip, what if the circuit board must be redesigned to accommodate them? Assuming the circuit board can be redesigned, what happens if the board now won't fit in the machine? Assuming the new board fits in the machine, what happens if you find a bug when you test it? Assuming there are no bugs with the newly remediated machine, are there enough days between now at 1/1/2000 to assure you'll have enough time to find and fix each embedded system? Sorry, I don't think so. - Jeff