Someone recently posted that an interview with Rick Cowles was available on some internet radio. I never got into that site. The poster offered to post a summary of the interview. Whoever it was, would you kindly do so? Thanks so much.

-- J Wheel (motherof5@wellprepared.noregrets), January 11, 2000

Answers

J,

See this thread:

"Rick Cowles's Interview"

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002FnA

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), January 11, 2000.

Thanks. I missed reading this thread earlier.

My local power provider, Cinergy - aka Cincinnati Gas & Electric told the Loveland, Ohio City Council in 1999 that "they would have 500 staff at all locations to run any or all of their five power plants manually. And that they could maintain this manual effort indefinetly."

After rollover, Cinergy spokesperson on CH 9 TV said "they had over 750 staff on duty during rollover."

Manual? Got No-Doze?

-- BillP (porterwn@one.net), January 11, 2000.

J:

the site that did the interview with Rick MAY have archived the realaudio .ram file. The rollover their files every week. I will email the host and ask him to put the file up on their web site at least so we can access it if you would like to hear it. It makes for very interesting reading after the discussion of configuration, manual operations and reservoir levels.

By the way, it snowed in the Northwest today.

-- warren blim (mr_little@yahoo.com), January 12, 2000.

The file is still accessible on their site. I'm saving it now.

http://www.m2ktalk.com/thu.ram

Supposedly Rick will be checking w/ his industry contacts to get any further updates on y2k readiness or compliance regarding manual operations, windowing, setting system dates, and other contingency type solutions used. I would think he might post the findings on his web site.

I would encourage you to listen to the interview yourself.

-- warren blim (mr_little@yahoo.com), January 12, 2000.