On 11/29/2011 06:40 PM, emile wrote:
Dave Angel wrote:
<snip>
> The whole Y2K problem was caused because
too many programmers made unwarranted assumptions about their data (in
that case about the range of valid dates).
Well, yes. But we knew then that the stuff we were writing wouldn't
still be in play 25 years out. :)
And they were also saving space, in an era where hard disks were
available for maybe three thousand dollars for 10 megabytes.
I remember it well... if not fondly. 5Mb internal and 5Mb removable.
Eventually (by 1980) we could buy 80Mb drives dumbed down to 35Mb for
$20k. Quite a bit better than the IBM mag-card system I started with,
itself a step up from single use punch cards...
Emile
I also started on punched cards, for maybe the first 30,000 "lines" of
code. I also had to deal with paper tape for object file transport.
Talk about unreliable.
Any chance you were a customer or vendor of Wang? That 80mb drive,
dumbed down, for prices around $20k, rings a bell.
--
DaveA
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