At 01:27 PM 3/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
Thanks, Michael! A great way to start a week!
Bill Lovell
>Rome, January 18, 1 B.C.
>
>Dear Cassius:
>
>Are you still working on the Y1C problem? This change from BC to AD
>is
>giving us a lot of headaches and we haven't much time left. I don't
>know how people will cope with working the wrong way around. Having
>been working happily downwards forever, now we have to start
>thinking upwards. You would think that someone would have thought of
>it earlier and not left it to us to sort it all out at this last
>minute.
>
>I spoke to Caesar the other evening. He was livid that Julius hadn't
>done something about it when he was sorting out the calendar. He
>said he could see why Brutus turned nasty. We called in Consultus,
>but he simply said that continuing downwards using minus BC won't
>work and as usual charged a fortune for doing nothing useful.
>Surely, we will not have to throw out all our hardware and start
>again? Macrohard will make yet another fortune out of this I
>suppose. The money lenders are paranoid of course! They have been
>told that all usury rates will invert and they will have to pay
>their clients to take out loans. Its an ill wind!
>
>As for myself, I just can't see the sand in an hourglass flowing
>upwards. We have heard that there are three wise men in the East who
>have been working on the problem, but unfortunately they won't
>arrive until it's all over. I have heard that there are plans to
>stable all horses at midnight at the turn of the year as there are
>fears that they will stop and try to run backwards, causing immense
>damage to chariots and possible loss of life. Some say the world
>will cease to exist at the moment of transition.
>
>Anyway, we are still continuing to work on this blasted Y1C problem.
>I will send a parchment to you if anything further develops. If you
>have any ideas please let me know.
>
>Yours,
>Plutoneous.
>................................................
>
>
>Thanks for this to Valerie Stephenson (Sales Configuration
>Management, Quicksilver Modeling Team, Dell Computer Corporation).
