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If you think you are, have you completely tested all your systems to make sure you won't have problems? Have you talked to your business suppliers and other business partners to ensure that they are ready? Whether or not you are ready, we invite you to review this document on year 2000 readiness.  Small Business Administration

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"We must be Paul Revere. We must tell everyone that Y2K is coming. But we must not be Chicken Little and tell them that the sky is falling."

Bob Bennett, Senate Committee

~Y2K~

"THE YEAR 2000 COMPUTER BUG is raising Americans' anxieties about our world and how it works. Is the "Y2K bug" God's way of humbling the human race? Or is it a false crisis manufactured by computer consultants and the media? Or something in between?"  by A Christian Perspective

~Y2K~

GLOBAL CHAOS...OR JUST A BIG HOAX?

Check out these links, and decide for yourself!

Check out this Y2K site that updates the most current national/worldwide articles every 5 minutes!! HomeNewsNow

International --Year 2000
Maintained by the General Services Administration (GSA)
Office of Governmentwide Policy
In Support of the Group of Eight (G8)
Government On-line Project

NSTL is pleased to make the YMark2000 utility available free of charge on their web site. However, due to the extreme popularity of the tool and the nature of their business, they are not able to provide custom support other than a list of written instructions and an FAQ 

 
Visit House committees and examine their efforts to review the implications of the Year 2000 problem.
Home Page of the Office of the House Majority Leader

The Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem
Bob Bennett (R-Utah), Chairmanhttp://www.senate.gov/~y2k/index.html

From Down Under
http://www.y2k.wa.gov.au/
Federal Reserve Board of Governors

IRS NEWSTAND (IRS Web Site)

Y2K-Status.Org
A Comprehensive Resource for Year 2000 Status.

"People come to this Y2K survival page for as many different reasons as there are people. You may be idly curious, or you may be desperately convinced that the future impact of the year 2000 is going to be severe and want to know how to survive."

The Millennium Problem in Embedded Systems ~ Institution of Electrical Engineers, United Kingdom

The IEE Website (http://www.iee.org.uk/2000risk/) provides information and guidance on dealing with the Year 2000 or (Millennium) problem and other date problems as it affects embedded systems, i.e.. devices whose operation is controlled by software. Such systems range from simple devices such as temperature detectors to plant management systems.

"The following is a range of the possible effects of year 2000 problems from the perspective of the year 2005. That is, what kind of historical event will this really be?

Scenarios (GL2)

"NON-EVENT: In this scenario, all the fretting and reprogramming pays off, or alternatively, computers turn out to be less important than we thought. Problems are solved with a little foresight, or with common sense after the fact. IS workers pull a little overtime the first week watching for trouble, but nothing unmanageable occurs. It is even conceivable that a positive boost could occur as businesses and governments get a more detailed understanding of the limitations of their computer systems and replace long neglected programs with software that adds utility to their systems.

"SPEED BUMP: This is the scenario that most news organizations seem to be expecting. Problems occur, but because everyone is expecting it, we slow down and go over the bump without real damage. Snafus appear, and businesses apologise for the error. The event becomes the national equivalent of April 15th (tax filing day), with many headaches, much griping, but in the end, the work is done, and we return to normal speed quickly.

"SLOW DRAG: Just as problems with the year 2000 appeared years before, in this scenario, problems will appear over time after 2000. As daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly programs encounter the problem, there is a constant but only slowly realised drag on all activities. In this scenario, everything done for the first time after 2000 will be problematic, and delays, errors and decreased productivity will diffuse through the economy, not always attributable to the year 2000 problem. The drag could be as significant as an increase in tax rates or energy prices. The year 2K could result in a recession, but the connection might not be obvious.

"BLIZZARD: In this scenario we come into work on Monday after the revelries to find 4 feet of computer snow on our desks. Computer and physical systems associated with them crash, there are traffic snarls, power outages and other significant problems. "Revert to manual methods" becomes the byword. The most significant aspect of this scenario is that all the problems (like the snow) is on the ground, and we all know what it is we have to work through. Power is restored, backup files found and used, and everyone shakes their heads in amazement at how reliant on computers we have become.

"HURRICANE: In this disaster scenario physical and technical problems abound, and new ones are continually being found. The problems threaten physical harm to the public. Before events can cascade governments intervene. Bank holidays are declared, food shipments and other essential activities are taken over by government mobilised noncomputerised troops or bureaucrats. All normal commerce ceases till hastily constructed emergency systems can provide society with basic needs. Emergency councils are convened, and while it is a physical disaster like a hurricane or flood, everyone understands what is needed to reconstruct and begin anew.

"APOCALYPSE NOW: This scenario has all the disaster components mentioned previously, but has added to it a substantial public panic. Problems cascade beyond informational, beyond physical, to the psychological and sociological. Stock markets collapse, rioting in the streets occurs, governments fall, and societal constraints break down."

Source: Bob Morrell <bmorrell@bgsm.edu> Thu, 3 Apr 1997

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~Y2K~

"At a NATO conference in Brussels in early June, Secretary Cohen offered his Russian counterpart all the help the U.S. could provide to prevent confusion, or "unthinkable calamity," when Y2K problems might blank out early warning screens, or show erroneous data, and panic officers into action."  Center for Strategic and International Studies

~Y2K~

"The potential impact on Federal programs if this problem is not corrected is substantial and potentially very serious."

IRS Newstand

"PERSONAL computer vendors have admitted for the first time that their new computers need patches to survive the millennium bug.

Compaq, Dell and Hewlett-Packard are offering Terminate Stay Resident (TSR) patches because of problems with the real-time clock on PC motherboards.

But all three companies deny it is a significant problem.

Compaq, the world's number-one PC seller, is offering a free flash upgrade for any customers with ROM BIOS software.

It would be posted on the Internet within two weeks, Compaq Millennium Team spokesman Malcolm Green said."

10/20/98 ~ Y2K in WA

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