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Technology Stocks : 2000: Y2K Civilized Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Hunt who wrote (478)	9/1/1999 6:53:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Respond to of 662

The Y10K Bug << Max was a COBOL programmer and having worked 70-hour weeks for the past few years leading up to Y2K, he was just sick of it all. It was now August 1999 and he just didn't care about Y2K anymore, he didn't want to hear about it. So Max decided to be cryogenically frozen and reawakened in August 2001; all the fuss should have died down by then... When Max came to again he was surrounded by a group of anxious looking people (one looked suspiciously like Bill Gates). One of them stepped forward and explained -- in broken English...the computer system running his cryo release date had not been Y2K compliant and in the chaos following January 1, 2000 he had kind of been forgotten in his cryo chamber. Anyway it was now July 9997 and they had heard that he was a COBOL Programmer... wbn.com