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

To: Joseph E. McIsaac who wrote (829)	1/3/1998 5:20:00 PM
From: foobert	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Some famous assumptions of the 20th century. This program will be long replaced by 2000, so it is OK to use 2 digits for the year field. Nobody will ever need more than 640K of memory in a personal computer. The price of oil will never exceed $10 a barrel in our lifetime, so it is Ok to use 9.99 notation for this field. The price of gasoline will never exceed $1 a gallon so it is OK to use 99.9 notation for gas price in gas pumps. Nobody will ever get a perfect 10.0 in an Olympic event, so it is Ok to use 9.99 for the score result field. Anybody else got any more of these? foobert