> On Jan 8, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Clem Cole <cl...@ccc.com> wrote:
>
> I asked our (Intel's) corporate librarians to see if they could find
> X3.27-xxx and in particular -1969 (the original) and -1978 which was version
> 3. I agree with Paul, that V3 (-1978) was the version that most people
> implemented. I seems to remember that, VMS started with V2 and upgraded to 3
> - as I remember on VAX Serial #1 trying to read tapes from it on the 360 or
> the Univac was funky.
>
> I wish I could remember what changed between the versions. I once knew, and
> I've sent a note to one of my old housemates that wrote some of the VMS tape
> support years ago. He might remember/have some of this stuff.
I think, but this is a *very* vague memory, that one of the later additions was
the addition of the century number to the date fields. Originally, ANSI labels
were not Y2K compliant.
paul
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