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To: B.K.Myers who wrote (491)9/1/1999 10:34:00 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Respond to of 662
 
BK,

I was referring to the hardware aspect of the problem, not the O/S or software aspect.

Sorry you misunderstood my comment.

Your are quite correct that a flashing the BIOS won't solve the problems with software.



To: B.K.Myers who wrote (491)9/1/1999 10:49:00 AM
From: flatsville  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 662
 
B.K. or Christine--Would you care to give us odds on successful remediation of Japanese PCs within the next four months assuming Feilder's assessment is correct?

For the sake of argument let's assume they've put virtually no thought into this, no budget, no research...nada...

(Christine, are you hyperventilating yet? <ggg>)



To: B.K.Myers who wrote (491)9/2/1999 4:34:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid  Respond to of 662
 
insidechina.com

National Power Grid To Undergo Y2K Test Tuesday

>SHANGHAI, Aug 30, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) China's national power grid will be put to the test this week as authorities begin a series of night-time trial runs to assess any impact from the year-2000 (Y2K)computer bug, the Liberation Daily reported Monday.<

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Well, 2 days have passed, or is that 3? Does anyone have a report on what happened?