Y2K price gouging, shortages begins for computer industry....

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Well, for all those small & medium sized businesses that are planning to fix on failure, it's not looking good.

http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?990910.hnsupply.htm

-- C (c@c.com), September 15, 1999

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Yup, I just bought 2 computers yesterday and Dell said the prices were going to go up soon....

The real shortages may be in the computer industry as old 486 machines die and need to be replaced.... They may sell a lot of PC's if Y2K is a BITR or such.

-- Helium (heliumavid@yahoo.com), September 15, 1999.


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