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Fwd: economist on year 2000
>Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 15:05:14 +0200
>From: [email protected] (Philip Machanick)
>Subject: economist on year 2000
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>Anyone care to send mail to [email protected] pointing out that their 4
>October article "The Millenium Bug" missed a key fact? (I already wrote
>about something else they got badly wrong.)
>
>They mention that up to 47% of PCs currently sold in Britain will crash
>when the year ticks over to 2000. They did not mention that all Macs are
>year 2000 compliant.
>
>I'm interested in their logic for saying this isn't a serious problem:
>"...on a typical day 47% of PCs probably crash anyway...".
>
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