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To: John Howell who wrote (21555)	8/3/1998 11:05:00 AM
From: david sosiak	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

Dear John, You have no/no idea about Y2K,nor the significant impact it will have on all of us,even people on S.I. Your starting to get the idea though, all of these embedded systems have to be examined and assessed.Since,you know so little about Tava,this is where they come in.The best is yet yo come.As summer turns into fall you'll be gone soon.. Regards, Dave P.S.Happy Investing

To: John Howell who wrote (21555)	8/3/1998 11:33:00 AM
From: fma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

John - I simply said their was an embedded chip discussion on CNBC so your point about "What he actually stressed was that the majority of instruments with embedded chip exposure would be replaced, not fixed" isn't inconsistent with my post. However, since you raised the point, I'd like to take it a little further. Isn't replacing defective chips in fact fixing the problem, and isn't the whole point of Tava's Y2K effort helping companies effectively identify only those chips which actually need replacing? There were some crazy figures kicked around last week about the number of man hours needed to replace 100,000 chips I believe in a master switch for a utility network. Obviously, there would be duplicates and those locations would be known. But I see Tava going more for the snake in the haystack. It takes only one snake, you don't know where it is, so do you burn the hay to destroy the snake (lets make this a mean snake and my apologies to snake lovers). And what kind of software workarounds might be required if an embedded chip exists that you can't reach. The guest host mentioned satellites, but what about off shore oil drill operations. Someone estimated there were in excess of 10,000 embedded chips in the typical large ocean oil rig, and if that's true, wouldn't you ask Tava for assistance to determine where you were going to assign your maintenance staff? I would. Finally, if the chips were already inventoried lets say by machine and manufacturer, does calling the manufacturer and simply checking to see if those chips are compliant solve the problem? Rick and Karl say no. They have talked about the difficulties that exist even when a company has a pretty good handle on the types of systems within its manufacturing floor. Sure, you could buy all new equipment and undoubtedly some companies will, but in my opinion most companies like to work with the equipment they are already familiar with and have partially or fully paid off. fma