richbourg.cla...@mail.dc.state.fl.us (Richbourg, Claude) writes: > I was cleaning out my office today and found an old IBM manual from > February 1998: > > The Year 2000 and 2-Digit Dates: > > A Guide for Planning and Implementation GC28-1251-08
in the early 80s, one of the online conferences on the internal network was discussions about the upcoming problems with dates and the end of the century (CENTURY forum). i've periodicly reposted somebody's contribution regarding other kinds of computer date problems that they had encountered (person was at nasa houston) ... http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#24 BA Solves Y2k (Was: Re: Chinese Solve Y2k) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#94 Those who do not learn from history... http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#21 Sun researchers: Computers do bad math ;) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#16 Was FORTRAN buggy? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#35 Friday fun - Discovery on the pad and the software's not done http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#53 Long parms...again misc. past posts mentioning internal network (was larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until possibly late '85 or early '86) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet recent thread in linkedin science center alumni blog about the invention of the internal network: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#74 CSC History http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#84 CSC History http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#22 CSC History http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#26 CSC History http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#28 CSC History -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
