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From: Robert Watkins <robert.watkins@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Real-Life Computing ...
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 08:57:56 +1000
BigDaddy writes:
>That's if and a big IF they get the 2k bug squashed. Hell wont that be
>funny. "we'll sell ya a chip that might work in the year 2000." But i
>wonder what happened in SR to cope with the year 2k bug? any ideas?


The crash of '29 was just an extended version of the Y2K bug. :)

(Actually, one of the MS Office products does have a problem with 2028 as
its last year, I think... and I succesfully campaigned to have the rollover
year for 2-digit date entry be 2028 for a product we have here. :)

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.sig deleted to conserve electrons. robert.watkins@******.com

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