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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (1252)3/13/1999 5:13:00 AM
From: Jim  Respond to of 1361
 
That's a great article that point by point discusses the year 2000 issues. The paragraph just before the one you quoted I especially like:

>>>But here is the thing to remember: unless the device brings out a way for the user to set the year, it does not care what the year
value starts out to be. It merely resets it to some arbitrary base value when restarted. In other words, it doesn't matter whether
the year number it uses is actually the current year. You can discount the credibility of any story that lists things like microwave
ovens that have no year input as being prone to Y2k failure.<<<




To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (1252)3/15/1999 2:53:00 PM
From: Jim  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1361
 
Thought you might be interested in the following story in the Toronto Sun:

canoe.ca

I really feel that people are coming to their senses. As we predicted, the Y2K doom-sayers are now saying that things will not be so bad, so they will not lose all credibility, and they can take credit for it being "fixed".

Think of all the companies that now have new computers and software, that they bought using the Y2K as an excuse.


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