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Now you have tested your PC, and possibly found that it is not Year 2000
compliant, what can you do?
In April 1997, [1 began shipping a unique and much-needed
hardware product for PC's
THE MILLENNIUM BIOS BOARD.
This board has been specifically designed to correct the hardware "bug"
which causes the date function in many existing PC's, to:-
"Hang" completely as it changes to 1st January, 2000, or
Revert to 1st January, 1980, (OR EVEN A RANDOM YEAR!)
For end users and IT Managers alike, the MILLENNIUM BIOS BOARD gives 100%
peace of mind. It is a permanent correction for their hardware, whereas the
only other options, until now, were to discard the PC prior to the year 2000,
or install a software "fix" on the hard disk which stands a good chance of
being deleted, infected by virus or overwritten before the year 2000 arrives!
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Also, if a non-compliant PC is replaced by a new, compliant PC, the next
owner of the old PC would simply inherit the same problem.
THE MILLENNIUM BIOS BOARD is manufactured exclusively in the UK.
It works with all correctly constructed PC BIOSs.
The [1 MILLENNIUM BIOS BOARD is simple to install, even for
the inexperienced, non-technical user. The package includes clear concise
instructions, and is as simple as a video card to install.
The card fits into any spare 8 or 16 bit ISA (Industry Standard
Architecture) Expansion Bus Slot. An MCA and a PCI version will be
available in late 1998.
The software installs itself into the first available area for BIOS
extensions in the Upper Memory Blocks, with a set of jumpers or switches on
the Board to allow the end user to adjust the position in memory should this
be desirable.
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With the [1 MILLENNIUM BIOS BOARD the end user can simply:
* Insert the board in the expansion bus of their PC,
* Affix the sticker provided to the front of the
machine declaring "Hardware Millennium Compliant"
* FORGET the problem !!!
An additional, permanent, reminder to the user is the following on-screen
message shown at boot-up:-
"MILLENNIUM BIOS BOARD INSTALLED".
Of course, it would be possible to produce a software-only "fix" for this
problem, but this software, once loaded, would have to reside on a hard
disk drive, and which IT Manager would be confident that this software
"fix" would remain on the hard disk up to and beyond the year 2000?
Re-formatting the hard disk, upgrading the hard disk, installing new (as
yet unwritten) software, could all be ways of invalidating or corrupting
the software "fix".
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* NEW PRODUCTS *
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Due in the last quarter of 1998,
the MCA version of the MILLENNIUM BIOS BOARD
followed by
the PCI version of the MILLENNIUM BIOS BOARD
followed by
The PCMCIA version for notebooks.
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[3
For technical or sales information on this software or
the MILLENNIUM BIOS BOARD, please contact your distributor.
Details are provided on the diskette label.
<Filedate 31/JULY/1998>