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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Jack Kilby dead at 81 Post 75869 by tmarikle on Wednesday 22nd of June 2005 03:20:06 PM
Old 06-22-2005
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Originally Posted by Kelam_Magnus
Uh dude... y2k is gone already Smilie

And besides... I never heard of anyone having problems with any appliances or stereos back then anyway.
Nor me, that was sort of a tongue-and-cheek comment on the gross over reaction to everything embedded that was certainly doomed to fail at the turn of the century. Smilie I don't know about you but I knew many who believed the sensationalism sold by some authors on the subject. I never could get some of them to calm down and listen to reason; we were too reliant on technology after all...so they believed.

My son's electronics kit has IC chips now; I feel sort of cheated with the one that my parents gave me.
 
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