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

To: NickSE who wrote (4540)	3/11/1999 10:12:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

The most important thing you said is IF. There are so many "What If's" in the world, you could drive yourself nuts thinking of all the possible scenarios. In my opinion, you can't compare a power outage due to an ice storm, tornado, electrical equipment malfunction, etc.... to Y2K failure.

To: NickSE who wrote (4540)	3/13/1999 4:00:00 AM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 9818

Power plants running under 2000 dates March 12, 1999 5:11 PM ET zdnet.com >>>Some Y2K commentators argue that the use of compliant and non-compliant computer systems in a network will corrupt all the date-related data on the network. Date forwarding has proved this is not a concern.<<< >>>Springfield, Mo., ran its publicly-owned Southwest Power Station using 2000 dates for 10 days in fall 1998 without incident. Washington Water Power, a Spokane, Wash.-based utility owned by Avista Corp., has operated several of its facilities on 2000 calendars and the company has declared itself ready to deliver power reliably after the New Year. Northern States Power, a Minnesota utility, has also advanced dates into 2000 without incident, according to sources. According to the North American Electric Reliability Council, 40 power plants have operated successfully using post-1999 dates.<<<