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Microcap & Penny Stocks : PINC - Planet City -- Software and Services -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steven M. Lulewicz who wrote (1137)	12/22/1998 11:57:00 PM
From: coffeeman1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1754

Steven, I have sent your request for info re: "boot disc" to Rudy at 8:00pm central. coffeeman1 ps. Gregs e-mail(krafty@home.com) He is away for holidays and his assistant Paul will forward all technical questions to Rudy. Hope to have answer for you soon :)

To: Steven M. Lulewicz who wrote (1137)	12/23/1998 12:38:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1754

Steve, re: "boot disk" in the highly unlikely scenario that a PC won't boot on 1/1/2000... Ever wonder how PCs remember the date and time even when unplugged? It's because that function is maintained by an internal battery. If you open your PC case and remove the battery (which is most always quite accessible), then the date and time revert to whatever the default is that was programmed in the boot up ROM, such as 1/1/80. Regardless of the actual default date, I think it safe to say it won't be in the year 2000 (g). Also, just about every PC I've ever bought comes with an emergency boot disk. As long as the "Date" command is included in the autoexec.bat file you will be prompted for the date. Obviously you can enter a date pre 2000 if that's what it takes to boot. If you don't have an emergency boot disk then make one now. If you have one, and you are so concerned about your PC not starting in 2000, then check to see if the date command is part of the autoexec.bat file. If PINC wants to provide a variety of emergency boot disk files on their website for downloading (one for each different version of each operating system), I suppose that would be nice, although, as I said, pretty much unnecessary for Y2K related issues. In the spirit of being helpful PINC certainly couldn't charge for that service, but, I suppose they might engender some good will and publicity. - Jeff