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To: ed who wrote (113799)	4/3/1999 11:32:00 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 176387

ed - By year 2000 , Jan 1st, 00:00:01 all 486 machines running with Win 3.1 will be thrown away due to year 2k this is a little off track. Most of those machines are in use by individuals who obviously don't care much about the latest and greatest, since they are running 5 year old technology. What Y2K problem would make these people buy a new system? It's not like their old systems will quit working, they just won't handle the date shift correctly. Pretty much all they will have to do is reboot sometime after January 1. Which they probably do on a daily basis anyway if they are still running Win3.1 I don't think this is a likely source of any new sales. More likely is people "on the edge" like 1997 pentium users. Almost everyone in a commercial situation will have an adequate fix before the millennium (although getting those fixes will probably provide new business if the upgrade cost is less than the cost to have technicians verify the fix).