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

To: John Mansfield who wrote (2344)	8/1/1998 5:33:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

FAA - 'From: Ralph Wilson <ralph.wilson@usaa.com> To: "'year2000-discuss@year2000.com'" <year2000-discuss@year2000.com> Subject: RE: Sighting: FAA ATC Computers Y2K OK! Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:03:59 -0500 Thank you for the information that you provided re: FAA. I have never denied being a skeptic and have found that it has served me fairly well. I acknowledge that my concerns seem to have been unfounded _in the light of the information at your disposal_. This is not to say that my concerns have been entirely laid to rest . . . being a skeptic, I _still_ don't plan to schedule any flights between Dec 15, 1999 , and about Feb 15, 2000. :-) Ralph D. Wilson II ralph.wilson@ctg.com <mailto:ralph.wilson@ctg.com> rwilson@thewizardsguild.com <mailto:rwilson@thewizardsguild.com> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic to the average user. Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:54:26 -0400 From: NATE MURPHY <105174.1470@compuserve.com> Subject: RE: Sighting: FAA ATC Computers Y2K OK! To: "INTERNET:year2000-discuss@year2000.com"<year2000-discuss@year2000.com> Ralph, Yes, you are a skeptic and unnecessarily so. The FAA started developing this system over thithy years ago. It went into production in the Los Angeles Airtraffic Control Center in 1972. The National Airspace System(NAS) was developed as a result of several air collisions that occurred in the 1950's. They understand more about the business of air traffic control and air safety than any organization that I am aware of. Believe me, Flight Plans, Departure flights, Tracking and Handoffs to ARTS(departure and landing) are all part of this multiprocessing, continuously operational(24x7) fully recoverable software / fail hardware system. This is a hugh messaging system written with its own priority operating(pre OS/360) and database management system(" DBMS" word not invented yet). This is a time dependent system(not Date Sensitive). Day is only important when it read the daily flight plan tape which is supplied by the airlines. Believe this, on March 23,1998, Stan Graham,TechBeamers, Bob Nagel and myself met for two hours with Ray Long, the FAA year 2000 manager and his staff. We discussed several alternatives with Ray. Ray's top priority was to analyze the micro code in the 3083's because it was the best alternative for the FAA, and it worked. At the time, we did not feel it would be appropriate to share that information with the group. By the way, it only took twenty lines of code to make the Enroute Air Traffic System year 2000 compliant. Ray and his staff deserves credit for saving a lot of time and money. They are perfectionist and the airways are much safer because of theirtechnical tenacity.