snip~~ Campaigning group Taskforce 2000, in a joint report with disaster recovery company Adam Associates, said 31 percent of Britain's top 1,000 companies by turnover had already been hit by Y2K-related problems.

Of the 1,000 firms surveyed, 84 percent are preparing for possible power failures, 86 percent for loss of telecoms links and 97 percent for systems failures.

"This is a clear indication that the possibility of infrastructure failure is a major concern and that companies are taking action to offset it," said Robin Guenier, executive director of Taskforce 2000.

"The truth is that we are all in the dark and it is time that the government made full information available."

The millennium bug is a programming glitch that could cause ill-prepared computers to mistake the new year 2000 for 1900, possibly shutting down the operations they control.

http://news.excite.com/news/r/991018/05/tech-yk-britain

-- kevin (innxxs@yahoo.com), October 18, 1999

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Thanks kevin.

"The truth is that we are all in the dark and it is time that the government made full information available."

humm...sounds familiar. I'm becoming less optimistic that the power will stay on.

Mike

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-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), October 18, 1999.