Third Summary - President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion

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President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion
Third Summary of Assessment Information
 

Well smiling John Koskinen and his merry council have the third summary out. (Aug. 5) It wieghs in at 201K. I haven't read it yet but thought I would post the link anyway.

-- Brian (imager@home.com), August 06, 1999

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LOTS of old information, often from the spring. This is an interesting situation, often the information dates back a few months. Of course the brighter folk will realize we only have 5 months left. More on this below.

Apart from the usual list of suspects having problems (Health, transportation and international) education seems to be way behind.

Of course one would figure the halls of wisdom would have recognized the problem early and had it remediated. Hah! Not.

Oh and 4% of the elevators are at risk,,, one of the heavily disputed (why?) problems. Buildings could have problems in other areas

Water is still 10% at risk from a June report.

Lots of entities will have it all fixed up by Sept 30. We will find out the results by December no doubt.

Not much information about broadcasters. Are the News orgs.going to be compliant? HHHHMMMMM

Of course the financial end is all fixed up, lots of happy faces there.

They even devote some thoughts on VCRs and your stove ect. Big deal, Just a waste of bandwidth.

A few thoughts about the report.

-- Brian (imager@home.com), August 06, 1999.


Re: buildings having problems. Hope everyone remembers to check their programmable sprinkler systems!

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), August 06, 1999.

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