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To: Chip McVickar who wrote (961)	10/29/1998 11:58:00 AM
From: Paul Berliner	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3536

NYSE was possibly testing something - but we can all live without trading stocks for a few weeks (though it'll be torcher!). Regarding the lawsuits there have been a number filed, and the total will obviously rise. Here's a synopsis and the link: The first suit was in 1997, A supermarket sued & won $250K from a cash register co. because the system kept crashing whenever someone paid with a card with an expiration date past 12/99. Lately, software companies have been getting sued. The plaintiffs complain that for example, that Chip Carpenter version 4.0 is not Y2K compliant, and the Co. is not offering free version 5.0s which are Y2K compliant. The suits thus allege breach of warranty and bring up various precedents to back up the claim. In addition, the most interesting one on the link below in my opinion is for a Co. suing a software maker whose Y2K compliant version requires a pentium 2 processor and the old version needed only a standard pentium. Thus, the Co. is being sued for new computers as well (College vs. Medical Manager Corp.) The list of suits on the link below actually reads from the bottom-up (chronologically). 2000law.com