YEAR 2000 READINESS DISCLOSURE

      COMPSEE, INC.
      2500 PORT MALABAR BLVD. NE
      PALM BAY, FL 32905
      (407) 724-4321      		DATE: 11-04-98

          Compsee Manufactured Portable Products:

          • Apex II� Portable Data Collection Terminal
          • Apex II� Communications Cradle

      As the year 2000 approaches, we at Compsee are taking proactive steps to ensure that you, the customer, can rest assured that our hardware and software products will be Year 2000 compliant. To achieve this compliance and maintain compatibility with all customer applications, we are providing our customers the choice of either two or four digit date formats. This approach will allow our customers to control how they want our products to report the date format. By providing the choice of date formats, no one will be forced into database structure changes or programming changes, unless it is their decision. Here is how we are able to offer this unique and simple solution to a potentially difficult problem.

      At present, the Apex operating system correctly represents all dates between the year 1984 and 2083, including leap years. The operating system currently uses two digits to represent this year range. A year from 00 to 83 is interpreted as the next century. For example, 83/1/1 is interpreted by the Day system variable to be January 1, 2083. In order to maintain program compatibility and provide the customer date format selection, Compsee has added the following enhancements to our hardware and software products.

      Apex II Operating System Enhancements

      The Apex II Operating System has been enhanced to provide four digit dates. The Sysparms statement has been improved by adding a "Century Date" parameter. This added flexibility will allow the user to set the parameter to return either a two or four digit year date format. (YYYY/MM/DD or YY/MM/DD). e.g. 1997/06/30 or 97/06/30. This new capability is available in version 2.11b and version 1.28a or higher.

      Program Generator Enhancements

      The Program Generator, version 3.0 or higher allows for user selection of either two or four digit century date stamps.

      How can you report a four digit year format on earlier versions of the Apex Operating System

      A simple conditional statement can be added to existing programs to allow the application to determine the current century. The following line of code can be used to determine the current century:

        IF DATE$(1:2) < "84" THEN CENTURY$ = "20" ELSE CENTURY$ = "19"

      Here is a program example showing how to add the century identifier to the string returned by the DATE$ function:

        IF DATE$(1:2) < "84" THEN CENTURY$ = "20" ELSE CENTURY$ = "19"
        CENTDATE$ = CENTURY$ + DATE$

      We are proud to be able to provide solutions that will continue to allow our customers the ability to control their applications. We feel this approach has distinguished Compsee's product from the rest of the pack.

      If you have any questions or would like additional information, please contact:

      • Compsee's Technical Support Department at (800) 768-5248

        This letter is subject to the Year 2000 Information and Readiness
        Disclosure Act (xx.U.S.X.XX). In the case of dispute, this Act may
        reduce your legal rights regarding the use of this letter.

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