Protection Guaranteed Y2K got you running scared? Maybe you should run to Protection, Kansas-the first U.S. city to be completely Y2K compliant.
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What havoc will Y2K wreak? As the world around them ponders theramifications, the people of Protection, Kansas, don't havemuch cause for concern. Earlier this year, this remote farmingcommunity just north of the Oklahoma border became the first U.S.city to proclaim it was 100 percent protected against disk failureand pesky Y2K dilemmas.
How? The oddly but appropriately named town was picked by@Backup, a San Diego onlinedata protection and access service, to have all its PCs loaded with@Backup's software and set up for daily data backups.
Even in a struggling agricultural community such as this one, PCprotection is important, notes Dave Webb, a Protection resident andamateur historian. "We have a variety of small businesses and[individuals] with [PCs]," says Webb.
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