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Officials say university computers ready for 2000

With the impending four-digit turn of the calendar year, UA officials are confident that all support systems will be safe from computer crashes.

"At this time, all of the support systems are Y2K compliant," said Al Tarcola, director of University of Arizona Facilities Management.

Tarcola said the only problem that could affect the UA is not in the school's hands.

"Well, all the problems that we have envisioned have been addressed," he said. "The only problem would be if we lose the electrical power from our provider. That is out of our hands, though."

Tarcola said UA officials have properly prepared for potential support system failures, such as fire alarms and sprinklers.

"We have been working on this for two years," he said. "We have also worked with TEP (Tucson Electric Power) to assure us that there will be no problems. We feel very comfortable with what they are doing."

Kelley Bogart, applications system analyst from the Center for Computing and Information Technology, agreed that students have nothing to fear.

"I don't see any major problems occurring," she said. "We have been working on this with Facilities Management for about two years."

Bogart said the only problems that may occur would be in older computer models.

"An older PC not being in compliance may have a problem," she said. "However, there are a lot of options you can use to alleviate the problem. With 15,000 PC's on campus, there are bound to be some problems."