Germanna Foundation wrote: > Next year is 1999 not 1990. > > Rose Marie Martin > GERMANNA FOUNDATION > PO Box 693 > Culpeper, VA 22701-0693 > E Mail: [log in to unmask] > > ---------- > From: Elizabeth Stith[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 9:53 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Nat'l Preservation WEek > > May 9 - 15, 1990 Yikes! As if the Y2K problem wasn't enough, we now seem to have a Y19.99K problem!!! Speaking of which, I just heard that September 9, 1999, which programmers routinely code as "9999" has the same code "9999" which is used to test out computer programs, and will cause many computers to go into a non-working test mode when it hits. I am now frantically pencilling into a PAPER calendar (not trusting my palmtop scheduler or desktop for this) both Sept. 9, 1999 AND January 1, 2000 as days to stay home cowering under the covers.... Techno-paranoically yours ;) tom