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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (2083)	7/5/1998 9:40:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

NY POST: 'PREPORTS OF MILLENNIUM BUG BYTES ARE ON RISE By BETH PISKORA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summer holiday weekends have become synonymous with bargains, as retailers try to entice shoppers away from the beaches and into the stores with big discounts. But some of the price-cutting may not be intentional Fourth of July sales at all. Some of it may be totally unintentional Year 2000 sales. That's right. Although there are still 546 days until the year 2000, the millennium bug has already started disabling the world's computers. .. nypostonline.com

To: John Mansfield who wrote (2083)	7/5/1998 9:49:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

'..And Awareness? Today, July 1, 1998, Y2K preparation was the cover story on USA Today. McPaper knows. This is it. Pull up the story... but the real Y2K story might be on page B1, the SABRE reservation system had its second blackout in a week. Last Wednesday it was down for over three hours, yesterday it was down for over four hours. SABRE is 7x24.... was 7x24. Welcome to Y2K. Anyone wanna bet they're slamming in Y2K fixes, trying to beat the clock. Hey, professionals are working on it. ... x10.dejanews.com