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New Web-Based Company Offers Software to Fix Y2K Problems in IBMs.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 1999 by Stober, Dan
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 10 -- Bill Wattenburg -- radio talk show host, former nuclear weapons designer and inveterate inventor -- has ventured into the world of Y2K solutions.
His Web-based company -- Y2K-OK -- Tuesday began offering software that Wattenburg says will automatically fix the year 2000 problem in two families of IBM computers, the S-390 and AS-400, the former typically used in Fortune 500 companies and the latter in medium-sized businesses.
Wattenburg's system uses "new arithmetic" to avoid the pending Y2K problem for another 50 years. And while an IBM official describes the method as technically sound, he is quick to point out that it runs the danger of becoming another innovation without a customer.
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