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To: 16yearcycle who wrote (21091)	7/4/1998 8:45:00 PM
From: Hank Stamper	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

gene wrote: "problems drag out to late next year, just prior to a world wide recession caused by the y2k disaster. So the orders, which would start pouring in late next year, get delayed an additional year, to late 2000, as companies deal with recession and " First, that was an entertaining post. Re the above quote: I work part time at a smallish hospital in a semi-rural district in British Columbia. We've got about 300 employees and I would guess about 100 computers (maybe less, but that's immaterial to my thesis here). I spoke recently with the MIS guy (keeps the network going; trouble shoots & repairs computers etc.) about Y2K. We've got a lot of very old boxes. He said, over 90 percent of our machines will not work properly with the network come Y2K. I reckon this is the same for many organizations similar in size. Is the reckoning right? If so, would this represent any kind of significant demand for chips-->fabs-->semi-capital equipment? Ciao, David Todtman