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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jwk who wrote (3226)	1/10/1999 5:49:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

You didn't read that article. read it again. infoworld.com Excerpt: However, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) acknowledged that a "small percentage" of semiconductors could be sensitive to the date change. They include non-volatile memory chips, the real-time clocks that regulate time in PCs, and the microcontrollers used in a range of embedded systems including industrial equipment, laser printers, microwave ovens, and automobiles.

To: jwk who wrote (3226)	1/10/1999 6:01:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9818

Up to six years, well now your getting to the natural life expectancy of products. If they were purchased in the 80's and 90's and they fail in 2006, that would make them about 20 years old, they were bound to fail any ways....thus a product fails in say 2006 you could easily say it was because of Y2K because who is going to spend the money diagnose what actually cased the appliance to fail. You would just go out and buy another. Worst case scenarios always are sobering. If you live and breathe worst case scenarios, you wouldn't want to leave your house. Actually you would be living in a bubble, because there is Radon Gas in allot of homes, I heard fibreglass insulation is a suspect for causing lung cancer, the point I am making you will go NUTS reading about worse case scenarios all the time. Enjoy yourself.