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

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (2174)	7/17/1998 11:24:00 AM
From: IVAN1	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9818

ALL: FABULOUS Y2K article in Harvard Business Review July/Aug Issue This long article is one of the best things I've EVER read on Y2k. It's written by a terrific Harvard B school prof and, of course, is addressed to senior executives. He has about 8 IT heads of big companies tell the y2k story. Chase, Starbucks, Ernst & Young, etc. Costs $15 but I think it's a must read. Don't miss it even if you have to read it in front of the rack. Best, Ivan1

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (2174)	7/18/1998 2:43:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9818

'Will The Millennium Bug Halt Chip Lines? (07/17/98; 12:41 p.m. ET) By Staff, Electronic Buyers' News There could be a chip shortage -- maybe a big one -- starting Jan. 1, 2000. That's when semiconductor fab lines across the world could start doing funny things because of the millennium bug. As pointed out in an earlier column, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and chip makers face a potential year 2000 glitch in the embedded code of millions of microcontrollers. And at the Semicon West show last week, industry executives revealed another major concern: Y2K errors can cause equipment to shut down, run erratically, and otherwise foul up production lines. That could bring the chip industry's long-sought end to oversupply, but not the way they intended. If fabs are affected by the Y2K gremlins, it could shake up the chip market, literally overnight -- at the stroke of 12 a.m. ... techweb.com

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (2174)	7/18/1998 3:00:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

' CALL TO ARMS: In his strongest move yet on the Year 2000 computer problem, President Clinton will propose legislation that immunizes companies from liability if they share data about solving the century-end glitches washingtonpost.com