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To: Greg Jung who wrote (31919)	8/30/1998 11:26:00 PM
From: CGarcia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

"The few functional PCs that have y2k problems are easily fixed with a $100 motherboard swap/cpu updgrade or a $10 bios replacement. I think that would be the preferred solution to buying another $2000 gate-box. Get real. Greg" Only an idiot would upgrade older 386 and 486 machines(Which most carry the Y2K bug)by buying new parts when P2s are so cheap today, when it's time for a fix, they'll go the whole route....Get real. CGarcia

To: Greg Jung who wrote (31919)	8/30/1998 11:44:00 PM
From: Stan Tomkiel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Greg, But, in the three companies I've worked in since the dawn of the PC, no PCs were upgraded with anything more that memory or I/O boards. (I saw workstation SPARC 1+ motherboards upgraded, but they never quite got it right - those machines are the first to lockup). I'm sure quite a few of us saw the same corporate behavior. Given the headache of upgrading successfully, I'm betting the replacement path is very nearly cost effective. Anyway, the cost of administration might be less for new machines with remote management built into the NICs - and that's an incentive. Of course, I'm one of the losers who bought into this dip, so what do I know....... Stan