The truly "fun" part about Y2K was that IBM solved the problem in the early 60s
with just 6 digits. CFO-64 was a life insurance application they wrote in
Autocoder that was my first encounter with what EDS-ers called "mo-year" code.
Dates were stored as a 4 digit number of months since some epoc
Just stumbled upon this thread and can't resist a comment or two.
In 1971 I went from "correspondence" training to 3 months "intensive training"
at the College of Automation in Jacksonville FL... Yep, Now I know that was a
pure scam, but I did learn how to wire accounting machines, code in RPG a
wow... I'm so glad I retired a few years ago. and that I spent more time with
VM/CMS, AIX and Unix (with Perl) than fooling with Rexx!
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