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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues

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To: John Mansfield who wrote (1866)5/17/1998 4:33:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (2) of 9818
 
[REASSURANCE] Well, that is a reassurance!

'Calm down, cyber-worriers -- Y2K glitches will get fixed

'Today I want to try to soothe some of the Y2K hysteria.

By now you've heard the media tremors over what will happen on Jan.
1, 2000, when some misguided computers will confuse the date with the
year 1900. According to some predictions, banks will fail, airplanes will
drop from the sky, the stock market will implode, the power grid will go
black, implanted pacemakers will stop ticking.
...

'So the only disasters will come from problems that couldn't be fixed,
can't be monitored and can't be lived without. I'm betting that people are
rational enough to prevent too many of those.

...
'What should a home computer user do about the problem?'
...

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