$f9e            RECENT REPORT FROM THE TEESSIDE EVENING GAZETTE


$4f9                           Submitted by Page
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Recent  reports have shown that the business world will be up in arms in
the  year  2000,  when  the  computer  world  will mostly collapse.  ALL
companies  will  be  required  to  use a software/hardware patch to stop
their  computers  from deleting their files.  The reason is that most PC
compatible  machines cannot go beyond the year 1999, when 0.00 on 1/1/00
arrives  the  computers  will  go  back  to  1900  and the computer will
automatically delete the files which were made later than this date (all
of  them).   This will result in the computers completely wiping out the
entire  hard disk.  Programmers are busy creating software antidotes for
a  new  release  of MS-DOS (7) due next spring and it will mean that the
users  will  be  required  to  purchase this new version of the computer
operating system to correct this and to keep their files.
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[It's known as the Millenium bomb and it mainly applies to COBOL written
software not machines.  Kei]

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So we can honestly say that the Amiga has no trouble with this as I have
checked,  and  my A3000 can go up to the year 3999 with out any trouble.
So  while  all of these idiots who bought PCs are rushing about spending
200  pounds  on  the  new  release  of MS-Doze and rushing to get it all
installed  of  all  6 million floppy disks to put it on their 4 Gigabyte
hard disks and rushing to re-orginise all of their files, we can all sit
back  and  look  smug as our machines automatically switch to 2000 as it
would any other year.  HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!



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