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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF

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To: Diana Schilke who wrote (19799)	12/6/1999 3:12:00 AM
From: Scrapps	of 22053

The Y2K bug is rooted in an old practice to save expensive storage space in the early days of computing: Programmers used just two digits to represent the year when storing dates. Although the most modern computer chips use four-digit dates, many older chips are still in use today in cars, home appliances and factory machinery. When the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, a few of those devices won't know how to interpret ''00'' and will malfunction. In many cases, simply telling the machine that the year is ''72'' will solve the problem. The days of the week and dates of the year 2000 match up exactly with the days and the dates of 1972. mercurycenter.com

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