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To: Aliska

Kinda miss some of it but time moves on.


So it was you that caused the y2k bug! : )
You were in a hurry and decided to leave off the 2 digits....


29 posted on 04/11/2014 3:54:22 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound
No I did not because most apps already had the Julian in the code; I just did maintenance.

Realistically, all those systems were outmoded well before y2k but I guess they didn't have the foresight to write a routine to span the two centuries just as a matter of prodence. New systems evolved from the old so some code just got copied and expanded.

Sometimes I was in a hurry though to get out of there; you are right about that.

So much I have forgotten. Some I want to forget. I miss my Hollerith code then. And I liked to do my own keypunching from the code sheets because I could unwind a little . . .

32 posted on 04/11/2014 4:03:09 PM PDT by Aliska
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