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Microcap & Penny Stocks : CSHK CASHCO MANAGEMENT Y2K -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (751)	4/24/1998 11:35:00 PM
From: Jim B	Respond to of 7491

Some of what you say is true.. but most things you're taking for granted. Do you really think that Microsoft is going to call/write/email EVERY customer that has ever purchased ANY software title from them that might be affected by the year 2000? What about people that have never registered with the manufacturer? You could say that with all the advertising that EVERYONE will surely know. Advertising is NOT going to make everyone aware. There are still a ton of people that don't have internet access. Those that do probably don't even know how to download and install a patch. Most people still aren't using an ANTI-VIRUS product and if they are its over 6months old and outdated but they think that it'll be good forever. Can't tell you how many people EVEN now as they read this have a SURGE PROTECTOR to protect their $$$$$$$$ that they spent on their computer and they don't even know enough to have a surge protector with a MODEM/PHONE line connection. Hmmmm. Let's see every cable protected on your computer except the one that goes from the jack in the wall to your modem. Forget something??? Phone lines can take a power hit too and damage the modem? It's my business to talk to EVERYDAY people about their computers. I'd say 7 out of 10 people come mid to end of next year STILL won't have a clue about what to do about this whole year 2000 thing. DONT expect a flood of info flowing from the companies to the marketplace to inform people. IT'll be more like... come and get it. This CSHK product will AID and assist people in finding the software that needs correction and guide them to where they need to go. And again, I believe that some patches will be included ON the CSHK product. That is my understanding of it. I still find people every week that complain that there system is slow and they're running win95 with 4mb of ram or they are getting "out of memory" errors and think that they don't have enough memory for a certain program when more likely it's a matter of memory MANAGEMENT (conventional memory issues associated w/ DOS... remember that)... People WILL ALWAYS need their hands held with their software/hardware and to think otherwise is SILLY. Most people don't even know how to partition and format a drive or to restore their boot sector (SYS C: command) I really don't think that in less than 2 years that the general consumer public will all of a sudden be so familiar with their PC's that they'll be able to easily identify EVERY software application in their PC that needs a year2000 patch and/or that EVERY manufacturer of software from the beginning of DOS to current day will be hiring detective to seek out and find every individual out there that needs their patches. No sir, people will want and aggressively seek some help in this area. Especially if the program like CSHK's will fully test their PC within a matter of a few mins and report back every application that will need a fix. I'd pay $75 or so to get that answer and I have a whole customer base of people that would as well and they know ALOT less about PC's than I do therefore they'll need/want it MORE! jim