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

To: yousef hashmi who wrote (11765)	5/28/1998 8:29:00 AM
From: JSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

Depends on the machine. There are many PCs already available that have been rated as Y2K compliant. There are also plenty of off the shelf/shrinkwrapped testing packages to test for Y2K. Bottom line is that a lot of older PC's will need to be upgraded, but in most cases, it is an easy fix to the bios. JSI Ps. Networks are a different issues. Embedded chips in the hubs, switches, and NIC cards.

To: yousef hashmi who wrote (11765)	5/29/1998 2:26:00 AM
From: P. Ramamoorthy	Respond to of 13949

Re.: desk top PC's As recently as 1997 or 1996 September, I was told by a y2k expert in a company, a chip on the PC motherboards had the y2k problem. Some companies have replaced desktop PC's for 33,000 or so employees this year with most modern desktops. The desk top PC's they replaced were anything that was on the desk - Pentium's, MAC's, or whatever. NT server is some places, but UNIX in most critical applications. Ram