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

To: John Mansfield who wrote (11875)	6/6/1998 1:05:00 PM
From: sibe	Respond to of 13949

Resurgence for certain Y2k companies: Message 4749649

To: John Mansfield who wrote (11875)	6/7/1998 9:22:00 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

John,I am not a Y2K specialist,in fact I am a Y2K ignoramus--I come to this thread to have something that an analyst on CNBC said,verified--he recommended Compaq as a strong buy because of its strong commitment to the Y2K problem--is this now possible due to their acquisition of DEC---John do you know of anything regards ComPaq getting deeply involved in the Y2K business---this would make that company,I think a good buy.Max

To: John Mansfield who wrote (11875)	6/8/1998 4:39:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13949

The June 15 edition of Time Magazine has a four page article on Y2K entitled "Apocalypse Not", with the subtitle of "The Y2K computer glitch is plenty serious, but don't panic". There's also a special box with the heading "Why the Government's Machines Won't Make it". My favorite part is the last paragraph: As a futurist, however, Saffo does see an opportunity in all this to help distant generations. "For God's sake, let's go to five digits [for calendar dates in software] so we don't have a Y10K problem," he advises. Amen. Oh that's great. To avoid another 8000 years of lame Time articles about programs that are unable handle dates correctly, we'll be designing software to treat, for instance, today, as "06/08/01998". I think the key to getting published in a major newspaper or magazine about Y2K is to entitle your article: "Y2K. Will the earth come to a fiery end?" or something like that. I suppose what worries me the most is that C-Span's recent Y2K coverage actually held my attention longer than Time. - Jeff