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$f9e RECENT REPORT FROM THE TEESSIDE EVENING GAZETTE
$4f9 Submitted by Page
$ddd
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.
$ff0
[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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