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

To: Ken Salaets who wrote (2190)	7/19/1998 4:35:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

CNN 'Clinton Wants Y2K Bug Fixed by March 1999, No Questions Asked Aired July 18, 1998 - 8:10 a.m. ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: At issue this morning, the so-called "millennium bug." By now you have heard of it. Computers programmed to recognize the year with two digits may not recognize double zero as the year 2000. .... cnn.com

To: Ken Salaets who wrote (2190)	7/19/1998 4:55:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

'National Air Traffic Controllers Association: Upon review of all information, testimonies and guidance available and having scrutinized contingency plans, guides and orders produced thus far, and in consideration of the benchmarks set forth by the agencies internal failures as described, NATCA perceives the overall condition of the National Airspace System to be catastrophic, and clearly threatens the economic, social and strategic health of this nation. ... ' ...This list could be made longer, but surely the point is made. The contingency plans put forth are convoluted and vague in an Air Traffic operational sense and are nearly worthless. ... 'Apart from computers controlling "doomsday" apparatus; there are no 20 systems more essential to the well-being of our society than those installed at the 20 FAA Air Traffic Centers home.natca.org