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

To: Jeff Mizer who wrote (4193)	2/28/1999 6:20:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

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To: Jeff Mizer who wrote (4193)	2/28/1999 2:28:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

'Senator Bob Bennett's new report? asked in the Electric Utilities and Y2K Q&A Forum -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am interested in reading the full report. Does anyone know where I can find it on the internet? I checked the government Y2K site, and I also checked Bob Bennett's site and I could not find the report. Thanks -- -- Andrew Cohen (andrew.cohen@cigna.com), February 26, 1999 Answers Andrew, are you referring to the recent Senate Special Committee on Y2K report? If I remember correctly, this is said to be a 160 plus page report, and I don't believe it's been released in full yet, but should be soon. A draft of the report was acquired by reporters. This is from the CBN site which references the Washington Post story: washingtonpost.com (Washington Post) This will be a Page One story in The Washington Post Wednesday: "A report on the Year 2000 computer problem prepared by a special Senate panel warns that a number of foreign countries and U.S. economic sectors, especially the health care industry, appear at significant risk for technological failures and business disruptions." "The report, scheduled for release this week by Sens. Robert F. Bennett (R-Utah) and Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), includes a letter to Senate colleagues describing the problem of computers' ability to recognize dates starting on Jan. 1, 2000, popularly known as Y2K, as a "worldwide crisis" and as "one of the most serious and potentially devastating events this nation has ever encountered." "A draft copy of the Senate report, provided by staff aides to The Washington Post, describes in vivid detail the scope of the potential Y2K problem and the frustrations that Senate investigators encountered as they tried to gather information from industries reluctant to describe what progress they have made in fixing computer and telecommunication systems." I believe that when the full report is released, you will be able to access it from the Senate Special Y2K Committee site at: senate.gov (The report will likely be in a downloadable .pdf format which requires an Adobe Acrobat reader to access it, but I can't be positive about the format they'll choose to use.) -- Bonnie Camp (bonniec@mail.odyssey.net), February 26, 1999. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contribute an answer to "Sennator Bob Bennett's new report?" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- rcowles@waterw.com greenspun.com