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To: tom pope who wrote (18701)	1/22/1999 5:42:00 AM
From: Ron McKinnon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53068

Tom >>> I suppose that means you're too young to remember Drive A and Drive B, with a floppy in each? thanks for the complement, but in the early 60's I ran unit record equipment on the night shift (holorith cards-you remember those?) you "programmed" those by sitting with a panel and a box of wires, each wire told the machine to do something with one "bit" of data then a Univac computer with metal tape, vaccumm tubes, that was before Drive A was invented, walked inside the computer to service it then IBM, 1401's, 360's, etc programmed in RPG, SPS, Fortran, later Cobol try writing a program for a NYSE listed company to do say production control with total memory of 4K that's why saving 2 bits of code meant so much back then, thus, the Y2K problem of today now, who is too young?