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

To: Jeff Redman who wrote (4375)	3/7/1999 5:08:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

<<"Ontario Hydro will stage the Y2K version of an air raid drill this Saturday in Toronto ...About 180,000 Toronto Hydro residential and commercial customers could be affected">> By Mike Funston Toronto Star Staff Reporter <No surprise here, it worked. All your hype, what a joke...> You're funny. I never previously discussed the Toronto test. (Though you never would have guessed it, since my mailbox was full today from Cheeky sending me a bunch of Toronto test posts - LOL.) My only contribution was that I hoped they had better weather for the test, than Ottawa (who's been in the middle of a blizzard), and later ... that I was happy it was successful because I have friends who live up there. <... just like your thinking that beginning 1/1/99 really means later in 1999.> I cut & pasted that whole discussion between you, Alastair & myself regarding Kraft, and what the Kraft V.P. said (not me) - so I could just post the whole dmn thing if you started up again. I really don't want to take the time and bandwith ... unless you want me to. Instead. I'll just post a list of Y2K Failures which occured recently and over past year. greenspun.com With documentation of sources - 27 pages* - NY auto sticker shock - Australian hospitals - Embedded chip locks out workers - Taxis bugged by Y2K - Stockholm Sweden's Arlanda airport - Consumer - Prescriptions/Insurance - Embedded Systems within an IV drip unit Shut down at 98-99 rollover - Generator temperature control system at a power plant in the United Kingdom ALL KINDS OF INTERESTING EXAMPLES OF ACTUAL FAILURES <You don't have a clue and have lost your credibility, if you had any. Why don't you go find another molehill to turn into a mountain.> I'll let others decide who has more credibility ... you, Cheeky or myself. Cheryl