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

To: issme who wrote (5096)	3/28/1999 1:06:00 AM
From: The Street	Respond to of 9818

<<If you want a hot tip on how to make a quick buck here it is, buy Silver or Gold, it will increase drastically in the coming months, but you better dump it right before the year 2000 or you will lose your arse!!!<< Kinda of the point, eh. Everybody must get rich....

To: issme who wrote (5096)	3/28/1999 1:12:00 AM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 9818

Y2K bug strikes early Saturday 27 March 1999 montrealgazette.com I think this guy has been reading my posts.

To: issme who wrote (5096)	3/28/1999 10:06:00 AM
From: John D. McClure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

If Ken is wrong, boy will HE be embarrassed! If YOU are wrong, you may well be toast! Hope you are even HALF-right for all our sakes! Have a nice life!

To: issme who wrote (5096)	3/29/1999 7:36:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Respond to of 9818

Issme - To fix the Y2K problem the only thing that must be done is to change the date codes in the program from a 2 digit year to a 4 digit year, that is it, nothing else... Ahhh... it sounds so simple. Ignoring the half dozen or so other methods to go about tackling the issue... here's a single data point. A friend at a financial services company looked at one of their record layouts. It had 350 fields. Just a quick eyeball showed 10%+ were obviously dates. The potential of changing 10% of anything at one time (particularly when it's running machinery) is pretty scary. Change that many things at once & you're bound to forget something. BTW... 2 digit to 4 digit expansion was the route people took when the started in 1988 and earlier. Folks that came late in 1995 or 1996 quickly dropped that approach since it's simply too disruptive. Yes, it's a simple problem... on the surface. - David