re: #82 RealityBasedSteve

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BTW… The Y2K problem was intentionally planned by the COBOL programmers back then. They knew EXACTLY what they were doing, and figured that this way they could make a ton of money about the time they were retiring by coming in and consulting on fixing the problem they created. Prove otherwise!!!!!

We had 10’s of K to work with, and there was simply no room to store a 4-digit year field.

We did bit flipping to manipulate the 2-digit year field into a 16-byte word.

This was FORTRAN days.