Re: Year 2000 woes solved?

In a message dated 97-09-23 01:27:31 EDT, you write:

> Year 2000 woes solved?  - James Romenesko, staff writer
>  "A 14-year-old New Zealand boy says he's come up with a solution to the
Year 
> 2000 computer problem - but he's not showing his stuff until he gets a
patent 
> in his pocket. Meanwhile, the kid has let a computer analyst inspect his
work,
>  and the older pro says the young man just might have solved the dreaded 
> millennium bug problem."
>  
>  Anyone heard about this?
>  
Yeah.  I is just a patch to the BIOS of some older PCs that lose the date
after you shut them off after  2000.  (ie, turn them on, set the date to
01/02/2000 and they are fine until you turn them off.  Then the date reverts
to 1980.)  If you have 286 and some 386 pcs and they are not on a LAN (if
they are on a lan you can set the date from the lan) and you want them to
have accurate dates and you do not want the user to have to enter the date
when they start up the PC, then this might work for you.
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