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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Personal Contingency Planning -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: john e vanden biesen who wrote (390)	7/13/1998 11:14:00 PM
From: Bill Wexler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 888

The point I was trying to make - if you were thinking (and I know most y2k believers prefer to make pseudoscientific/emotional arguments rather than think rationally) - is that the federal government has been using computers to process SSI payments for many years now. Why didn't the system blow up...let's say 20 or 30 years ago when checks were being processed for (a much larger number) of recipients born in the 19th century? Furthermore, how did people born in the 19th century conduct ANY sort of computerized transactions in the mid to late 20th century if (according to the Y2K zanies) mainframes would go bezerk and the world would come to an end once their birthdate was input? I'm sure the silence will be deafening.