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A blast from the past

-- Lane Core Jr. (elcore@sgi.net), July 09, 1999

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Thanks, Lane.

"This is a national emergency," said one. "I'm very worried about the ability of a country to defend itself when it has no electricity." "Everything is going to fall apart," said another. "I'm going to the bank to take out all my money, buy wood because the heat wont work, go home and lock myself in."

A doomsday religious cult? A paranoid militia movement? No, technology professionals at a recent San Francisco conference on the Year 2000 computer problem. -- Los Angeles Times, November 9, 1997

THATs a classic!

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"It's going to be a dud," said David Starr, the chief information officer at Readers Digest, and a former technology officer at General Motors, ITT and Citicorp. "The fuse is going to go down to 2000, and were going to wake up and nothing will have happened."

David Starr is now the CIO at Knight-Ridder news services (Silicon Valleys San Jose Mercury News is part of their publishing empire).

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The weed-pulling started two years ago at Pacific Gas & Electric, one of Californias largest utilities. John Greer, manager of computer systems, said the San Francisco-based company is on schedule to finish by the end of 1998.

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Like most companies, Pacific Gas & Electrics Year 2000 problems are centered in its mainframe computer systems that track bills, payroll and other financial documents that depend on dates. But even that repair work is proceeding better than expected.

Early estimates that the project would cost $42 million have been lowered to about $30 million, partly because in searching for Year 2000 glitches, PG&E has stumbled onto many aging computer systems it can scrap altogether.

Uh... their schedule slipped. Still arent done. And its cost a lot more. And the still say no guarantees.

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Some worldwide cost estimates for reprogramming or replacing affected computers are as low as $50 billion. But most are in the $200 billion range.

Right. (Not).

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Good read.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), July 09, 1999.

hey die ann, (snip) (snip) (snip).

always wanted to do that.

a cutting kiss to ya sweet cheeks.

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-- corrine l (corrine@iwaynet.net), July 09, 1999.