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To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (9640)	1/1/2000 2:11:00 PM
From: puzzlecraft	of 9818

Hi! I recall you from the Bre-X days... see you came out of retreat before Y2K... glad all is well. You say "shortsightedness of our 'fore-programmers'". I was a mainframe programmer in the '70's and '80's. The standard way for an IBM mainframe program to get the current date was to go to "low core memory" at hexadecimal location 20. The date was stored there. It took eight bytes, stored in EBCDIC character format.... "MM/DD/YY". If IBM, when they designed System 360 & System 370, had instead stored the date as MMDDYYYY, with NO extra bytes required, probably $100 billion+ in consequent expenses could have been avoided as it would have enhanced programmer awareness and enabled the diligent to program better! Happy New Year. John

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