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


To: B.K.Myers who wrote (3831)2/12/1999 2:48:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9818
 
y2ksurvive.com

'I am personally involved in Y2K at our plant that manufactures high tech prototype and production printed circuit boards. We are experiencing a 95% failure rate in the ongoing testing of our pc's and proprietary computer controlled process equipment. All the hardware was given a Year 2000 date rollover test and the vast majority failed. We also have hundreds of embedded processors that can't be tested and we will have to result to FOF (fix-on-failure) or letters of compliance from vendors and suppliers, which are always suspect.
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To: B.K.Myers who wrote (3831)2/12/1999 3:05:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Respond to of 9818
 
ITU - international telecom union - Y2k status as of November 1998 around the world. You can see what countries might have a busy tone on 1/1/2000... some countries pretty d*mn late IMO.

itu.int