-> On 18 Jul 09  03:16:48, Bob Ackley got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Y2K Bug in OLR

 DC> I think the year was 2038, or something like that.  BW's problem was 
 DC> it held only 2 bits for the date.

 BA> Two bits??  With two bits you can count all the way up to three
 BA> (beginning at zero).  With one byte (8 bits) you can count up to 255
 BA> and with two bytes (16 bits) you can count up to 65535 (both cases
 BA> starting with zero). 

Whatever it was, the field for the date in the programming was set up 
to accept 2 digits for the year in thw data record.  

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