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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (13488)	1/3/1999 8:55:00 PM
From: Adamson	Respond to of 13949

Jeff, LOL :>) Regards, Adamson

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (13488)	1/3/1999 9:28:00 PM
From: foobert	Respond to of 13949

Why would your wife's hair dryer care what day it is? <<P.S. For fun, last night I programmed my wife's hair dryer and the VCR ahead to 12/31/99. When I checked them this morning they both said 1/1/72. I guess that explains why my wife now has an Afro and I had taped an episode of the Mod Squad.>> I have a Radio Shack programmers calculator that I bought in the late 1980's. It also has a calendar feature. You set the date, and it shows the day of week by putting an underline on one of the seven day symbols. I set this forward to 12/31/99, and waited for the next day. It showed the correct day of week for January 1, 2000. Then I advanced it to Feb 28, 2000 and again it showed the correct day of week for Feb 29, 2000. My VCR does not have a calendar feature. You just set the day of week, and it cycles from Saturday back to Sunday and then through the week. Not all old chips are defective.

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (13488)	1/3/1999 9:30:00 PM
From: Jim Fitzgerald	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

Hair driers - I forgot hair driers! I wonder if Coleman makes a kerosene hair drier. I just drug out my old Sears Model 1200. I bought it back in the seventies when I had long hair. It still works! Might be a good way to keep warm when the heat goes out. Speaking of the seventies, you must be as old as I am. The Mod Squad? Those were the days, my friend. Jim

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (13488)	1/4/1999
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

Jeff - Hah! Loved that site (http://www.duh-2000.com). My favorite was: Ken Orr is the guy behind the site. In 1995 I asked Ken about the then preposterous Y2K guesstimate of $200 billion (just for the US) that Data Dimensions was floating... admitting that it was a SWAG, he said "More has actually been written about this subject than is actually known." - David