He said ComEd will meet the deadline. Ho and his 150-member staff have the job of finding and fixing the date and calendar functions tucked away in the 15 million lines of computer code needed to run ComEd. The company must also check to see which of its 20,000 computer chips has a Y2K problem. . . . I won't spend much space on this. Here's the basic problem.
Railroads carry things in freight cars.
Each car has a number on its side. This number is entered into a computer. You check this on a mainframe computer. These cars are leased by the railroad companies, often from limited partnerships set up to buy cars. The railroads send these cars from place to place, hoping to maximize their return.