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To: LuckyLinda who wrote (23793)	10/6/1998 6:27:00 PM
From: jwk	Respond to of 31646

just for the heck of it and fyi..... from the Denver Post the other day: (couldn't find this in the Post on-line, so I typed it in very fast w/minium proofing, please excuse the goofs) BOULDER BRACES FOR Y2K by N.Haas special to Denver Post They came for different reasons and from different walks of life. But it was clear one thing united them: a potential disaster that is less than 15 months away. The year 2000 problem, also known as Y2K. "To be forewarned is to be forearmed," said Sylvia Forsber, a Boulder county resident who was one of the at least 200 people attending a town meeting on the subject. Few empty seats remained, and several people stood in back of the Elks Club ballroom for the community briefing. it was the first opportunity forBoulder residents to voice concern, ask questions and learn how their community leaders are dealing with Y2K, a computer glitch that could be triggered at midnight on Jan. 31, 1999. "It's kind of a combination of concern as well as anxiousness," said Jeanna Dolezal, explaining her reasons for attending the meeting. Dolezal is from Berthoud, but made the trip to Boulder to get a handle on some of the pertinent issues of Y2K and learn what is being done to prepare for it. Area business leaders, spoke at length about the task of updating computer systems and preparing for the chore of dealing with Y2K's wrath. Without being updated, some computers will interpret the year "2000" as 1900, since many units rely only on the last two digits of the year, automatically inserting the number 19 in front. Bob Ray, the Y2k coordinator for the Public Service Company, said the hardest thing is finding the computer chips that need to be updated in computer systems that operate everything from phone lines to power plants. After that, replaceing the units is relatively easy. He said 30 percent of PSC's computers are prepared for 2000. If the computer glitch happens, "it will be much like a natural disaster," saidRichard Varnes, taskforce coordinator for the Boulder Y2K group. "It will leave a city in a mode of having to deal with that." All of the speakers, which included representatives from U.S. West, Boulder Community Hospital and Boulder Year 2000 Community Preparedness Group, asserted that Boulder was ahead of schedule and that if disaster erupts on a global scale, it could be avoided locally in Boulder. Some people weren't convinced. "I think they're being real optimistic that this issue will be under control," said Don Becker of Boulder. "it's all interconnected," he said noting that most systems are interdependent on one another. "if the world is affected, Boulder will be too," he said. Generally, peoplel agreed that electrical power was of primary importance since there is susch a heavy reliance on the technology. "This is our bread and butter, as the speaker from the hospital said," remarked Jim Brown, a general contractor from Northglenn. "If it goes down, it cuts off everything." Several of the attendees also agreed that the town meeting was helpful. It was the first in a series of meetings that the Boulder Y2K Community Preparedness Group will hold. "It's an opportunity for people in town to prepare themselves," Dolezal said. She underscored the improtance of communitiies getting to know their neighbors so each party can rely on the other if a tumultuous road is ahead. As useful a as the five-hour session was, however, there was some criticism that this type of meeting should have taken place earlier and that the world should have better prepared itself for Y2K. 'We should have done this years ago," scolded Brown. "Now, we're going to pay for it through the nose."