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|    Danny Ceppa to Maurice Kinal    |
|    bragging rights    |
|    17 Jan 06 19:09:46    |
      On 17 Jan 06 13:47:44, Maurice Kinal got back to Danny Ceppa        -> Re: bragging rights               DC> Y2K had some to do with that. Some sytems crashed. And, many         DC> users didn't get the fixes.                MK> What fixes? Seems to me that other then installing a non-yk2 affected        MK> dos there were no fixes directly for dos. Some of the apps maybe.               BW crashed. Though I've never needed Dale's fix, others did.                MK> make a habit of converting them. However the bulk of zip is still        MK> Fido. As far as I am aware that was to biggest effect y2k had on        MK> BBSing in general given the bulk of them being dos based.               The thing is is that most people that use computers are not        computer literate.                      --- OMX/Blue Wave/DOS v2.30        * Origin: Soundly on the Fault Line (1:138/666.0)    |
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