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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Eski who wrote (3064)	12/28/1998 12:56:00 PM
From: Investor-ex!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Hi Eski, Yes, the AS/400 is a great box. It is also hosting mountains of non-compliant software. Yes, 9/9/99 is a mostly a non-issue. I've never believed this will be much of a problem. No, not all "systems" by any stretch of the imagination have manual overrides. An elevator is not a billing system. The override to a great many systems is to resort to manual reconciliation and document generation -- a near-impossibility due to the scale of effort involved.

To: Eski who wrote (3064)	12/28/1998 4:40:00 PM
From: Ron Everest	Respond to of 9818

<<<<<>Banks, elevators, airconditioners, farmers, publishers, dispatchers, chef's, >teachers, preachers, factories, everything, MANUAL OVERRIDE.>>>> One would be pretty naive to believe that all systems have MANUAL OVERRIDES. My recent past life had exposure to banking Y2K remedial work and I want to assure the writer that banks do not have anything like manual override. My understanding is that in Canada most of the banking/trust and credit union institutions are Y2K compliant now or they have software replacement scheduled for conversion. There was a recent article on US compliance which stated 1300 banks were cited for close scrutiny with approx 700 of these being more severe in their Y2K non-compliance. With regard to electrical power systems, I can believe that there are manual overrides for many of the functions, however, I have trouble believing that the regional control systems (to measure the demand and coordinate supply) have manual overrides. Best regards, Ron E