Year 2K The Problem or Party of the century -- MIDRANGE-L

OK  here it is  direct from URL
 http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/970815/news/stories/millennium_1.html

Clinton  discusses  gov't & private industry PLUS focus  on
 Hillarys celebration of the century project

>>Friday August 15 11:40 PM EDT 

Clinton Pledges to Ready Computers for 2000

WASHINGTON (Reuter) - President Clinton Friday pledged government 
computers would not be plagued by the "millennium bug," a flaw that will 
have some systems mistakenly calculating the year 2000 as 1900. 

"We can't have the American people looking to a new century and a new 
millennium with their computers, the very symbol of modernity in the 
modern age, holding them back and we are determined to see that it 
doesn't happen," Clinton said during a speech at the National Archives. 

The problem arises from computers programmed to record only the last two 
digits of the year. Such computers may treat the year 2000 as the year 
1900, generating serious errors or even crashing the systems. 

"I want to assure the American people that the federal government, in 
cooperation with state and local government and the private sector, is 
taking steps to prevent any interruption in government services," 
Clinton added in his first remarks addressing the year 2000 computer 
issue. 

Estimates for correcting the problem worldwide range as high as $600 
billion, but administration officials have said the government can 
correct its computers for less than $3 billion. 

Industry officials and some lawmakers have warned that the cost could be 
much higher. They said the government is moving too slowly to assess and 
correct the flaws. 

A report by the Office of Management and Budget released last month 
found 71 percent of the government's most important computers yet to be 
repaired or replaced. 

(71 % sounds much the the same 8/12/97 IBM Y2K/ AS/400 Teleconference )

"Their schedules are slipping and they're not where they need to be," 
said Bob Cohen, spokesman for the Information Technology Association of 
America, which had called on Clinton to address the issue. 

(snip - agency reports)

Clinton's speech largely focused on celebrations planned for the year 
2000. He said first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton would lead a millennium 
project overseeing the U.S. celebration of the new century. 

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>Have you seen the Bill Clinton  Whitehouse  statement this week  on
Yr/2000  public & private sectors  >support statement.  No  relief  but a
supportive  statement. If   anyone is interested  guess I  might  locate a
>copy  for posting or a URL?
>
>Glenn
>
>  
>At 09:38 PM 8/15/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Connect,
>
>In a message dated 97-08-15 15:24:03 EDT, you write:
>
>>  PART 2
>>  Dean  lots of applications were done by may people not likely the same
>staff
>>  as  doing the Y/2000 thing today. No  need to  mention documentation we
>all
>>   leave behind (as descriptive) to support or legacy art and creative
>actions
>
>Very true, but I would hope that the staff performing the Y2K conversion had
>at least a cursory knowledge of the system on which they are working.  The
>accounts that I was addressing (and suspect the original poster represents)
>HAVE no documentation in most cases.  I have no idea what you mean by "legacy
>art and creative actions".
>

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