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To: IceShark who wrote (41739)	12/28/1998 10:17:00 AM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53903

As far as utilites being generally relfective of the overall business response to Y2K -- you are right (they aren't) -- they've got a real incentive to have things fixed in time, plus they have "cost-plus" regulation. They'd have to be dumb not to get it licked on time, but the same is true of the larger banks, Ice. It's mostly legacy information systems. Embedded chips aren't a huge deal. There aren't that many functions that need a serial date. Largest problems will probably be at small to midsize businesses. I think from a spending standpoint it is a big deal, but all this doom and gloom HS is just that, HS. As to Nuclear plants shut down ... you are simply misinformed. It won't happen ...