Tuesday's hearing focused mainly on telecommunications and financial markets. One Internet site, Gary North , an historian has compiled reports of predictions of everything from widespread power failures to bank runs that could throw the world into a deep depression. This serves as a clearinghouse for information regarding various non-IT control systems that depend on computer clocks or date calculation in their operation. These include fire detection, HVAC, traffic controls, security and environmental control systems. This does not include personal computers, servers, mainframes and other IT-related systems.
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Information Page-This is a summary of a Hot Topics session on the Year 2000 date problems in health care.