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To: JDN who wrote (27230)	1/29/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: jwk	Respond to of 31646

more from the Chicago Tribune article: >>>...Ultimately, beating the technology epoch's greatest and most exotic snafu boils down to an exercise in taking good inventory. Solving the Y2K problem requires finding every potentially vulnerable device, figuring out who made it, then asking the manufacturer if it was tested to see if it would work past 2000. But that's harder than it sounds. "We don't know how many embedded chips there are," said Elizabeth Boatman, the Y2K boss for Chicago. "We know what machines we have, but they don't come with a label that says, 'This has a chip in it.' You have to guess." And the tedious and time-consuming process of finding these embedded chips and determining if they will operate is just beginning in many places, especially in the public sector. ....<<<