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The remaining eight percent of the systems that were not compliant were not mission critical, he added, but they would be completed by this summer anyway.

The company is only a distribution cooperative that is supplied by Virginia Power. Distribution systems were 99 percent Y2K compliant, with, component replacement I scheduled for completion at1 the end of June.

All primary business operations were being replaced, Hodges said, with software updated and computers replaced.

“Contrary to the federal government, the national power grid is in very good shape since a majority is analog (not computerized),” he said.

“The biggest fear of the power company is that on Jan. 1, 2000 we’ll have an ice storm, and people will blame a power failure on Y2K, not Mother Nature.”

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The Rappahannock National Bank has engaged Vitex, Inc., a banking technology consultant to identify and fix its systems.

In a statement issued by the bank, it said that they are on target to have all renovaCrime

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