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

To: Christine Traut who wrote (11280)	4/29/1998 12:51:00 PM
From: Bobby Yellin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

you are speaking to a dinasaur..I was one of those assembler programmers on mainframes...all the systems I worked on didn't fudge the date...(I guess IBM etc didn't need to scrimp on storage..I worked on state of the art as my introduction..which now probably looks silly compared to new pcs) anyway I have called a couple of friends of mine who know people who worked in early sixties to see if they ever heard about code 99.. I am beginning to think gold bullion,silver etc might be interesting to watch rather than the gold or silver stocks even.. also I searched the web to see if I could see any reference to the term and couldn't find any.. if you hear anything please post back..if I find out anything more.. will immediately post..hopefully it is not Year1999 problem.. bobby

To: Christine Traut who wrote (11280)	4/29/1998 6:53:00 PM
From: Bobby Yellin	Respond to of 13949

noticed a bigger spread on agcr..agiss..don't know if you are following it..who knows..maybe it will start moving shortly.. look at chart if you get a chance bobby

To: Christine Traut who wrote (11280)	4/30/1998 4:13:00 PM
From: Bobby Yellin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

The great unknown works in mysterious ways..today ran into a former operator of mainframes from as early as the late sixties..I asked him how they shut down computers for maintenance and repair..he tried to remember and to the best of his recollection he said that they would feed in a huge deck of cards and would get a huge sort program as a result...sounds like a program closed the systems very very carefully..(remember those card decks..a lot of us would punch up our own cards and get lazy about entering sequence numbers..scarey at the thought of dropping all those cards..but laziness would often win out) think I found the answer to code 99..will check a bit further..but I think that was one false alarm.. bobby