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Technology Stocks : Y2K damage reports -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (142)	12/31/1999 12:29:00 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Respond to of 286

My husband just called and told me he encountered his first y2k glitch this morning.....He bought gas at a local station and the register receipt printed out 1964 as the date... Looks like we're gonna get some hefty finance charges on our bill next month....<ggg> bp

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (142)	12/31/1999 1:45:00 PM
From: bearshark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 286

Hi Gersh: Here is a nuisance that others may find in their programs if they are running MS Office 97. From time to time, I use someone's MS Office 97 programs. After that suite was updated for Y2K fixes, I found an annoyance. If I posted a date such as 1/02, 6/03, 5/06 (month/year) in MS Word and then copied it and transferred it to MS Excel, Excel would set the dates back to 1999 and would confuse the months. Another thing I read in a computer magazine, which may not have any truth at all, was an issue with MS NT 4.0. The article noted that NT needed a split second to convert the dates at turnover. The article made the issue that since NT runs many business servers, there may be some errors at that split-second. One other thing. If anyone is trying to reach a federal government site from December 30, 1999 to January 3, 2000, you may find the site gone. A number of government sites went offline yesterday with a scheduled return of January 3, 2000. So, if you are searching for a military base online, and it does not appear, there is a good chance they are simply off-line for security purposes. I am now running NT 4, SP 5; MSIE 5; MS Office 2000 Premium; and a Y2K compliant computer. I should be current and Y2K OK. However, I would not be surprised if something strange happened for the turnover. I have no plans to be online for the conversion.