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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Hunt who wrote (6299)	7/6/1999 5:20:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Respond to of 9818

$50 million check too good to be true County computer listing big payoffs by mistake << Fred Rice was shocked, happy and bemused ? in that order ? when he received a check for $49 million and one cent last week from the Monroe County prosecutor's check deception office ... more ... >> << The mistakes are the result of a computer error generated by new software that was installed to fix the so-called Y2K problem, said Monroe County Prosecutor Carl Salzmann. >> hoosiertimes.com ***** The Y2K Upside << There is growing evidence that the so-called ``Y2K crisis' may have a giant silver lining for the U.S. economy. Faced with fixing millions of lines of software code to ensure that their computers can read the year 2000 when clocks click over six months from now, many companies have decided to overhaul their entire computer systems. That, in turn, has led them to rethink how they have done business, and in some cases spurred top-to-bottom reorganizations ... more ... >> pioneerpress.com