From: glen mccready 
  To: Dead Beef <0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 22:42:09 -0400

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Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 10:35:48 PDT
From: "Mark C. Lawrence" <M.Lawrence@FORSYTHE.STANFORD.EDU>

REPLY TO 07/24/95 05:18 FROM IBM-MAIN@UA1VM.UA.EDU "IBM Mainframe
Discussion List": Re: What do you know about year-2000-tools???

andrewm <andrewm@UG.EDS.COM> writes,

> ... It is my own belief that
> most computers will explode spectacularly in the year 2000.

Yeah, New Year's Eve 1999 should be an interesting evening for computer
programmers.  That noise you hear at midnight will be a million beepers
going off.  I think I want to be backpacking in Nepal that week...

> I'm sure the Internet will be awash with [horror] stories galore
> from Jan 1st 2000 onwards.

What makes you think the Internet will be UP on Jan 1st 2000?

Mark C. Lawrence
Systems Programmer     Internet: M.Lawrence@Forsythe.Stanford.edu
Stanford Data Center     Bitnet: M.Lawrence@STANFORD
Stanford, CA 94305-4136     Tel: (415) 723-4976