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

To: Technologyguy who wrote (8246)	8/22/1999 4:14:00 AM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

There were so many critical dates that have come and gone. What about the doomers who were concerned about the DOW 10,000 bug last year? We will have to put up with more doomer scare tactics, see: web2.gobase2.com (Note: They forgot April 01/99 and July 01/99, oh and the airline reservation system in Feb 99) Also: fema.gov My post on Y too Kay critical dates: Message 10572263

To: Technologyguy who wrote (8246)	8/22/1999 4:40:00 AM
From: Ken	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

<Y2K deadlines passed without..incident> Not true! I have an article showing 75% of all companies have had malfunctions of one kind or another. True, the vast majority of them were very minor, but the % is quite staggering! In any case, the numbers and the seriousness are totally irrelevant in terms of how disruptive y2k will be next year, as the embedded systems malfunctions/shutdowns will be the real killer, and they won't start until December. And, the fixes for them in many, if not most cases will be staggeringly more difficult, in some cases completely impossible, compared to codes.

To: Technologyguy who wrote (8246)	8/23/1999 8:09:00 PM
From: bearcub	Respond to of 9818

technodude, frankly, i don't think the stories of GPS screw-ups or loss of life from old units will show up immediately, although i must say i am grateful, NO airplanes fell from the skies. i will patiently wait for the war stories about GPS failures to come out and mark my words, they WILL come out! just like i've patiently waited and RICHLY REWARDED by the way of y2k failures that have already impacted my life and millions of others, globally, and it isn't even 01/01/00 yet. i was at the Safeway's drugstore just this past weekend, just a few clicks away & talked to the pharmacist about how it was going in the drug retailing business. she was disturbed by how many drugs she had on backorder now and was frustrated by being unable to fill a simple order for a woman's birth control med (for April 2000 that is)