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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (51901)	3/14/1999 12:52:00 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeets, I don't think oil producing countries will have any serious Y2K problems. They tend to not be computerized that heavily. I think the Y2K problems will be concentrated in Europe, tech Asia, and the US. I haven't got a source for S&P earnings. As far as IDC goes, I just read their predictions and laugh most of the time and don't keep a record. Earlie may. I also confuse their numbers with Dataquest in my mind as neither is any good. I know they predicted 17% revenue growth for pcs last year and it came in negative. The year before, I seem to remember 19% and it came in at +6%. Beyond that, I just remember the words "lousy prediction," and I was paying more attention to SIA's long history of lousy predictions for chips. MB MB

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (51901)	3/14/1999 11:16:00 PM
From: Tim McCormick	Respond to of 132070

SB, it seems I read last week that the Russian pipelines were not compliant, and that many sections of the control system were only accessible by helicoptor. It sounded like a real challenge to fix. Tim