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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (1586)	5/3/1998 2:12:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

Sire, Testing a few products, and seeing that they work... that simply not enough to conclude that there will be no mayor problems because of embedded software y2k errors. In 1998 some 6 billion embedded processors were sold; still quite a lot of them having non-compliant software installed. There are many systems were you can not simply do a BIOS upgrade. I strongly suggest that you first read a lot about the issue; and then make some remarks on this thread. There are a lot of links to be found; some of them to real experts on this issue. Regards, John

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (1586)	5/3/1998 2:48:00 PM
From: Steve Woas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Sire, I can see you have a lot to learn about Y2K. Just because a company says that their product is Y2K "ready" doesn't mean they have thoroughly tested their products, and it sure doesn't mean that they won't have to spend many millions of dollars for legal fees fending off Y2K legal action. Another thing. Just because a company said they finished fixing Y2K code doesn't mean a thing if they have not spent at least as much time and money testing the said fix. Many companies can't test code on their existing systems. Not enough DASD, etc. Y2Kly yours, Steve

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (1586)	5/4/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: David Eddy	Respond to of 9818

Sire - My computers (all three) are now Y2K compliant after a SIMPLE flash bios upgrade. Hmmmm... and what about the applications that you depend on. Major part of the Y2K awareness problem in PC land is that 99% of the chatter has been about the silly (as you point out, very easy to fix) BIOS/clock niggle. But what about the A/P, inventory, G/L, fullfillment mailing list, etc applications that run your business? For individuals who typically don't move much beyond light word processing, spreadsheets, database & e-mail, then probably, Y2K is likely to be a minor event for them within the context of their machines. If you're running a business with an ancient but still functioning DOS application with lots of corporate data, then you've got more to think about. Is the vendor of that inventory control system still in business? - David