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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Eddy who wrote (8935)	1/14/1998 11:23:00 AM
From: Risky Business	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

"First Call Corp., which collects Wall Street's earnings estimates, has a flaw in its computers that prevents it from plugging in information for beyond the start of the new century.... The computer problem is keeping the investors, bankers, and analysts who rely on First Call from receiving earnings information, statistical ratios, and analyst recommendations for the year 2000 or after. [How can there be earnings information for the year 2000? oh well--DPBS] 'We just can't get 2000 in our systems' presently, said Chuck Hill, director of research at FIrst Call, a unit of Toronto-based Thomson Corp. 'We're rewriting our software now....' "While First Call anticipates its bug will be fixed soon, there are no guarantees. The company expects to update its software to recognize years as four-digit numbers by the end of March, said spokeswoman Faye Fardshisheh...." Boston Globe, 1/14/1998, p. C3, attributed to Bloomberg News: