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

To: UDanWright who wrote (8543)	9/7/1999 11:19:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

<Any information or concerns about 9-9-99..... At one time this date was feared as much as 1-1-00...> SEPTEMBER 9, 1999: Personally, I don't anticipate any major, earth-shattering problems. But, I could be wrong. There's been a lot of debate, misinformation and confusion about this issue ... Though it is a trigger date, I don't think 9-9-99 was ever feared as much as 1-1-00, though media seems to bring it up alot. Since there's been awareness of potential problems for a very long time, I think in most cases it's already been fixed. My entire comments re Sept 9 are here (Post #8512): Message 11169278 David Eddy is probably the best person to comment on this. Cheryl 115 Days until 2000

To: UDanWright who wrote (8543)	9/7/1999 12:13:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

comp.risks reports possible Y2K $891.24 payment to consumer ====================================================================== [Snip] Subject: Tandy bug? The following story was recently forwarded to the EGR mailing list. I wonder if anyone knows anything more about it? L. ..... William Slattery shares the following personal experience. All you reporters out there might take special note. Y2K is here! I got a check in the mail last week from Tandy Corporation: $891.24. A nice chunk of change that there is no way in the world they could owe me. Here is what I think happened. Because of my odd habit of paying off most of my bills to the nearest ten dollars OVER what I actually owe (it makes the math easier when I balance my checkbook), I had a small credit on my Radio Shack credit card. Their computer looked at the end of the billing period, which fell after the infamous 9/9/99, and said Wowza!, this guy has had a five dollar credit on our books since January 1 of 1900. Since company policy is to pay off credits on inactive accounts, I'm going to calculate the interest and cut this guy a check. So here we are. I phoned Tandy headquarters (817-415-3011) and talked with the person in charge of this sort of thing, Lisa Mapes. I told her there was no way Radio Shack could owe me 900 bucks because I hadn't spent that much money in their stores in my whole life. I told her I thought they had a Y2K problem. She laughed at me. It was not a good laugh. It was the "you're so ridiculous it's hilarious" kind of laugh. Ms. Mapes told me to go ahead and cash the check. Radio Shack really owes me this money, she says, even though they are completely unable to explain WHY they owe me the dough. I told reporters at The New York Times and National Public Radio that all their stories warning about Y2K were finally starting to pay off. I figured that after years of running Chicken Little stories -- the sky is gonna fall! the sky is gonna fall! -- it would make a good little story when the first chunks of sky actually started landing on people's heads. Apparently not. They seem profoundly uninterested [...] Message 11175020 Thanks to Bill Ounce for finding this RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Friday 3 September 1999 Volume 20 : Issue 56 FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS(comp.risks)- ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator *** See last item for further information, disclaimers, caveats, etc. *** This issue is archived at <URL:http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.56.html> and at ftp.sri.com/risks/ .