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To: Paul Engel who wrote (58996)	6/28/1998 1:28:00 AM
From: Barry Grossman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Slightly OT Not a problem. Putting that post up here was my pleasure. I'll try to post his follow-up next week - if I remember. Re: Greenspan & Y2K problem I believe it was in his latest congressional testimony that I heard Greenspan respond to a question about the potential effects of the Y2K problem. He related that he was a programmer in the 60's and there is no way that he or anybody else thought that the programs they wrote then would still be in use at the end of the century. He was uncertain regarding the economic effect of the problems that will possibly occur as a result of the failure of some computer programs to work. Can you explain why everything couldn't be pretested to see what will occur ahead of time by setting the date forward in the computers. Is this too simplistic? What would happen if everything was tested and the important problems discovered now - before 2000?. What kinds of legacy systems are still operating that use such old code? Couldn't they be replaced with current hardware and software rather than fixing old software? What am I missing or failing to understand? Regards, Barry