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

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (811)	1/2/1998 10:58:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

FIRST SIGN OF FAILURE - From Yahoo Message Board It's happening NOW!! Just experienced what I believe to be a first sign of system failure due to the Y2K bug. I was trying to view my orders for the day thru my broker, Discover Brokerage (Lombard), and it said I didn't have any open orders for the day. Then I noticed the date field, it was looking for orders between Dec 4 1997 and Jan 2 1900!! I almost st my pants!! I tried to adjust the field but the year 1998 is not there. Leaving me to believe for some reason the bug made the system think it is 1900. I could not believe my eyes! I could not view my orders I just made an hour ago!! Can you imagine the law suits and bad publicity it can trigger. What a melt down. This is no joke, and like many people I have had my doubts about this so-called problem. After all, God is real but you just can't be too certain until you meet him in person! Well today I meet the maker. Post this where ever you can! This should put the fear of god in man. By: steveswanson Date: Jan 2 1998 3:05 A.M PST Reply To: Msg. 1 by YahooFinance messages.yahoo.com. ========================================================== Reminds me of Smith Barney's fiasco last year around this time when they tested their Y2K work!**