We are all looking to see what happens tommorrow (1-3-00) in the US. I would like to follow those companies that have been 'shut down' until Monday morning. Chemical co.'s, etc.

-- Mark (markmic@kynd.net), January 02, 2000

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New Mexico state court systems fall into this category.

-- vanna white (aeiou@buyavowel.com), January 02, 2000.

For what it is worth. Department of Social and Health Services, State of Washington. By order. Watched with my own 2 blues, going through the local office not only shutting down but pulling plugs. Not the same as what you asked, however may add to your general info.

-- All Eyes (waitingandwatching@wastate.com), January 02, 2000.

My wife's two art galleries.

-- jumpoff joe a.k.a. Al K. Lloyd (jumpoff@ekoweb.net), January 02, 2000.

I am the assistanit network administrator at my workplace, a trucking company with about 400 employees and 60 PCs. We turned off the PCs on Friday, and are here now (Sunday) turning them back on, checking dates, and doing virus updates. The bugs so far are : The main gate wouldn't open on Saturday (Computer operated, of course.) and one PC with the date Feb 2, 1999. (?????) Other than that we seem to be fine. We'll see what happends on Monday when all the workers come back and we get actual data flow going.

-- Tania Baildon (tbaildon@yahoo.com), January 02, 2000.

Little Bohemia Bar in Traverse City, Mi. will be closed

-- I M Buyin (bellyuptotheb@r.boys), January 02, 2000.

Battelle off-line until Mon Jan 3. Employees return Jan 4.

-- tt (cuddluppy@aol.com), January 02, 2000.

The Texas State Library and Archives.

Not only did they turn off all of their computers, they were required to have a representative in each of their departments who would be in their building on the evening of the 31st. The job of the representatives was to make sure that all electrical devices(including all computers) were turned off, and UNPLUGGED. This went for all of their servers as well. They will be doing a very cold boot on Monday, 01/03/2000.

The General Services Commission of the State of Texas was taking some of their stuff off-line as of 10:00 a.m. on 12/31/1999, but to a lesser extent then the Archives. Dunno what their Monday plans are; they supposedly have folks in their building this weekend bringing the GSC systems back on-line.

Dunno about other state government offices in Texas or elsewhere; just these.

There it is...

Don

-- Shimoda (enlighten@me.com), January 02, 2000.

I am a school teacher and I know that our computers have been off during the entire break (Christmas thru New Years.) I assume this is true of just about all schools.

murdonstaf

-- murdonstaf (stafford@1st.net), January 02, 2000.

I work for a large stock brokerage firm - one of the top ten. All computers, printers, faxes etc were turned off Friday. Will be turned on Monday morning.

-- REvans (vrevans@bigfoot.com), January 02, 2000.

We shut everyting down on Friday and they were going to bring things up yesterday afternoon. I just dialed in to check on my Apps, They was up and apparently functioning in El Salvador, Jamaca and Mexico. We have 7 domestic plants, I only checked a couple and it was up. I will add that there has been no user activity as of yet, so we will see tomorrow....

-- BH (bh_silentvoice@hotmail.com), January 02, 2000.

A subsidiary of Allied Signal, located in the Pacific NW, a manufacturing plant that processes hazardous chemicals. Everything went completely off-line on Dec. 31st. Jan 1, servers, workstations and LAN were brought back on-line uneventfully. Jan 1 and 2, application software being tested, status unknown. Jan 3, pending no problems found, manufacturing processes will be re-started one piece at a time.

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), January 02, 2000.

Canon, Virginia. Manufactures HP printers and cartridges. My SO went in to do prelim check for 1/4 plant restart, and only found one minor glitch, which consisted of inaccurate date read on one of the many scanning devices used to read bar code of one component in the manufacturing process; took only a few minutes to correct software to reflect the accurate date. Will let you know if anything else arrises, or if this quick fix has unplanned consequences, heh.

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 02, 2000.

Large chemical company in Milwaukee, WI. Nearly all PC's turned off 12/30/99. Some servers were left on over the weekend; mainframe was deactivated but not turned off. Nearly all production and control systems were off for the rollover (except those needed to maintain a safe environment; these were monitored during rollover).

Some major systems brought back on line Saturday and Sunday, with limited tested. Everything else gets turned on 1/3. Production systems will be brought up one at a time, and proper operation confirmed.

-- Jerry Heidtke (jheidtke@email.com), January 02, 2000.

NazDar, a Kansas based Chemical company cut the factory back to minimal and turned off all computers; mainframe, pc's and network, as did their branches throughout the US. The computers were brought back on line today and everything appears to be OK. Work will not re- open until Wednesday.

More importantly, a post from a very knowledgable person on Rick Cowles Electricity site said that many of the Oil Pipelines in the US were shutting down. I have know idea if they've started up again though. In the Venezeulan News today, it said they had shut down all ports and pipelines but had them all up and running now. Frankly, though, I don't believe half of what I read in main media.

-- meg davis (meg9999@aol.com), January 03, 2000.

If I'm not mistaken, I believe that the AMMEX board on the exchange is closed until the fourth, as a precaution. Any confirmations?

-- Mike (mikeymac@uswest.net), January 03, 2000.

THE ALASKAN PIPELINE

-- red in sterling (1234@56.com), January 03, 2000.

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

-- Bob (janebob99@aol.com), January 03, 2000.

I did shut all of our office systems down on Friday 31 Dec.. Started back up this morning and had the system date file on our inventory management system inaccessable and the date stamp reads '00/00/00. The other date stamp, transfer date, is accessable and changeable to whatever you want it to read.

-- idunno (idunno@whoknows.com), January 03, 2000.

US Steel production facilities. Several other smaller "continuous" steel and manufactoring facilities. Several (don't know how many exactly) chemical plants in TX, LA.

-- Robert A Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), January 03, 2000.