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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (558)11/27/1997 1:43:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston  Read Replies (2) of 9818
 
88% of PC's & Laptops didn't recognize New Century

London Sunday Times reporters tested 26 PCs and laptops in Dixons, Harrods, JohnLewis, PC World and Tempo. In every store the reporters were given categoric assurances from sales staff that their machines were "millennium-compliant".

However, using a program called Prove It 2000, they found that 23, or 88%, of the machines contained cheap and outmoded real-time clocks that will NOT recognise the new century. More expensive millennium-compliant clocks have been available since 1992.

CK SIDEBAR: Even though millennium-compliant clocks have been available since 1992 .... they haven't necessarly been used!

START HERE TO FIND OUT IF YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TIME:
rightime.com
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