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

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (4752)	3/18/1999 12:45:00 AM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 9818

My fax machine is not Y2K compliant, well, it's Y2K compliant "With Issues" and that issue is the header of the fax will display the wrong year. Since we send fax cover sheets along with the actual fax, and no one reads the header, unless they have 20/10 vision, I am not concerned at all. Now this Y2K issue. If it is showing a 2 digit date as 00 for 2000, it's really no big deal. It didn't go into detail saying what date would be displayed, so I am guessing it is 00 for 2000 and 01 for 2001 etc....NO big deal SEE: panasonic.com Others: SEE: okidata.com minolta.com PS. My microwave was not affected by the date roll over <g>

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (4752)	3/18/1999 9:15:00 AM
From: Christine Traut	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Cheryl: Fabulous! eye-opening! and totally justified rant. It's an old technology trick - give 'em so much information that they have no idea what you are talking about. Gee, if Microsoft can call things compliant when they need to be patched, why can't everyone else? Your honest reaction may be an early indicator of how seriously upset people will be with the technology industry. I don't think most of them get it yet. Watch out for regulation, law suits, tough warranties, companies changing leadership because of how they handle this issue....all post 01/01/00. Christine