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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems and Utilities -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (54)	8/3/1998 4:01:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 89

' And the Treasury Department plans to buy power generators to provide supplemental electricity at three finance centers, where millions of Social Security, tax refund and veterans checks are printed, in case local utilities fail. A center in Hyattsville will get a $1.3 million, quick-start generator designed to prevent any disruption of computer functions. These emergency backup measures, along with many more, reflect widespread anxiety in the federal government that computer malfunctions on an unprecedented national or global scale could result from the simple inability of many software programs and embedded computer chips to recognize that the new year is 2000 rather than 1900. ... washingtonpost.com