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To: Triffin who wrote (32)	12/2/1998 6:16:00 AM
From: Rande Is	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57584

Jim, On Y2K. . .I have heard that the lot of people running for the hills, as you put it are being led by the programmers. The programmers of COBOL and FORTRAN, etc. best understand the problem. The general public has a hard time imagining that major companies, utilities, institutions, etc. still employ mainframe computers that were designed or built in the 70's. They are still online and interfaced to more powerful systems. Call a programmer, or find an insider at a big utility and ask them what is being done and what they think the outcome will be. I was told that the main switching station for calls in two states here have a team that comes in "every other Thursday and Friday" to work on the bugs. . . in a building one full city block and 12 stories high. I was told, "we don't talk about that Year 2000 thing here much...it's sort of hush, hush." In the meantime, I keep loading up on staples for the "long winter" ahead. Rande Is