-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Geiser <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 6:08 AM
Subject: Re: Another millennium bug -- sort of


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>> are not guaranteed to have a proper software workaround in them. If they
>> don't, the user's readout will instantly put the user 116
>> trillion miles (19
>> light-years) off of the surface of the Earth. If you were deep in
>> the woods or
>> far out to sea, that could be somewhat disorienting (so to speak :-).
>
>And for us aviators...this could prove to be quite disconcerting - and
quite
>expen$ive to fix.
>
>Here's hoping that a software upgrade comes out soon... meanwhile, my
>receiver, which I use with a laptop (this very one I'm using in fact), is
>Y2K compliant (thank goodness, as I can see myself flying to HPWorld in
1999
>(wherever that is - I don't recall offhand) and ending up flying over
Alaska
>;)
>
>Cheers,
>Joe

Wow! Joe must be some pilot. GPS puts him 116 trillion miles away and he
doesn't stray off course any further than Alaska! Now I know who to bum a
ride with. :)

Doug.

Doug Werth                                     Beechglen Development Inc.
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