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Microcap & Penny Stocks : TPII - Year 2000 (Y2K); Groupware; Client Server Migration -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MB who wrote (9424)	11/25/1998 1:30:00 PM
From: Patrick	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 10903

Set for Sunday night: Experts tell Steve Kroft that Y2K will probably cause some serious problems... This is CBS's "60 Minutes" Anyone have knowledge from previews?? Who will be on the program??

To: MB who wrote (9424)	11/27/1998 9:50:00 AM
From: DR. MEADE	Respond to of 10903

Computer Trouble Looms for Welfare Payments in 2000 By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON -- Most states are behind schedule in renovating their computers for the year 2000, and as a result, it is likely that benefit payments will be delayed, or services interrupted, for some people who receive welfare, Medicaid, food stamps or other types of assistance, federal and state officials say. State employees are working feverishly to fix the problem and to draft contingency plans in case their computers are not ready by Jan. 1, 2000. But some states are lagging, and states that have repaired computers for one program are often behind schedule in fixing computers used for other social programs. Federal officials say the problems could begin as early as January 1999 in some programs like unemployment insurance. People filing claims for jobless benefits typically have a year to draw all the checks to which they are entitled. The last day of this "benefit year" is recorded when an application is received. So computers must be able to handle dates with the year 2000, starting in January 1999. Randy Johnson, chairman of the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners in Minneapolis and former president of the National Association of Counties, said: "I'd be surprised if there was not some dislocation and some interruption of services. We are trying to work with our clients, many of whom are elderly or frail, to make sure they know how to reach us if they have problems." Many federal benefit programs are administered at the county level, and county officials will have to deal with the consequences if payments are late. The year 2000 problem arises because early computer programmers often used a two-digit format to express the year. In such computer programs, 2000 is often indistinguishable from 1900. If the problem is not corrected, experts say, computers could produce inaccurate data or shut down.