Re: Year 2000 corps - House bill passed in Oregon

[Pat Barber <MBOCEANSIDE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glenn Ericson wrote:
> 
> 5/23/97  Forwarding FYI
> >From: Diana Lindsley
> >
> >FYI - thought I'd pass on some info regarding Oregon House Bill 2903 -
> >regarding  the Year 2000 and info from the local paper (Statesman Journal)
> >article of today (May 22).
> >
> >Headline - Year 2000 corps would recode state computers
> >Article bylined by: John Henrikson of the Statesman Journal, Salem Oregon
> >
> >Subhead -  The House passes a bill that would assemble a group of
> >programmers to tackle the problem.
> >
> >Some excerpts from the article:
> >
> >Oregon may create a corps of students and seniors to fix the Year 2000
> >computer bug.
> >
> >The House on Thursday unanimously passes House Bill 2903 to creat a 'Y2K
> >Corps' that would recode the state's computers.
> >
> >The corps would be made up of students and retirees who would be employed
> >temporarily by the state Department of Administrative Services.  .....
> >
> >The state alone had 59 million lines of code to reprogram.
> >
> >The bill creates a training program through community colleges and
> >universites to teach students reprogramming skills. ...
> >
> >By using the corps, the state also will drastically reduce the price tag
> >for the reporgramming, Adams said.  (Rep. Ron Adams is the bill's sponsor.)
> >
> >At market prices, the state would expect to pay about $83 million for the
> >Year 2000 fix.  The 'Y2K Corps' should be able to accomplish it for about
> >one-third of that, Adams said.
> >
> >The corps also would employ retired computer programmers, many of whom
> >originally programmed the computers, as supervisors.
> >
> >End of exceprt
> >
> >The bill language is available on the Oregon Legislature's web site.  It
> >now must go to the Ways & Means committee as well as the Senate.
> >___________
> >Diana Lindsley
> >Department of Administrative Services
> 
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The state of North Carolina just announced their bill would run about
82.5 million dollars to fix 1,200 different systems in use by the state,
and they think that this is a better number that the first estimate 
that was 330,000,000.... They are looking for the money to start "real"
soon....
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