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   Message 502 of 1,946   
   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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