Back then we used 1 a character year, 0-9 was 1950-1959, A-J was 1960-1969 and K-T was 1970-1979. If
you want to know why look at the punch card code. 0-9 was a single punch. A-J was a + (12 punch)
with a 0-9. K-T was a - (11 punch) with a 0-9. We knew that this would break in 1980 but we thought
by then we would not be using cards any more. :)
However VM came along and now we have virtual cards in our RDR and PUN. :)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeff Henry wrote:
On 3/9/07, *Mike Walter* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
... and IBM has better things to work on than something 35 years
from now, ...
That's what everybody was saying back in 1965 about the y2k problem.
:-)
And because they said that, them mainframe thingies caught on! There was
a reason they were so tight with those extra bytes for the "19" way
back then! It might have had consequence, but I'm not sure it was the
wrong choice _at the time_.
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