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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