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To: John Mansfield who wrote (25286)	1/3/1999 9:35:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116764

Millennium Bug Lurks With Time Running Out - '99 A Game of Catch-Up chicagotribune.com << Chip hunt Elsewhere, though, glitchy chips capable of creating electronic mischief are indeed turning up. By most estimates, about 5 percent of the chips embedded in all sorts of devices will malfunction on Jan. 1, 2000, if they are not replaced. And they are being found in the most unlikely places. Nearly half of the 600 Breathalyzers used by police departments across Illinois to identify drunken drivers have a Y2K-incompatible chip in their electrical innards that would render their printouts unusable in court. The glitch, of course, would have surfaced just at the moment that champagne corks were popping beneath cheers of "Happy New Year!" The University of Chicago Hospitals discovered its pneumatic tube system, which whooshes blood and tissue samples around the sprawling complex, needed to be replaced to keep it working in 2000. "It would have choked," said spokesman John Easton. Computer screens attached to each of the 300 manufacturing robots at Ford's South Side assembly plant would have reverted to gibberish if technicians there hadn't discovered that a single chip in each one was not Y2K compliant. >> Interesting Y2K article