> On Apr 20, 2018, at 3:26 PM, David L. Craig <[email protected]> wrote: > > In 1974, we considered it, but the cost of a byte of disk storage was > enough to push the storage of each date's century toward the '90s. We > fully expected the remediation would be needed but storage would be more > affordable by then, which panned out. What everybody got wrong was > expecting the relative costs of hardware and software to not change, but in > fact they flipped--hardware became dirt cheap but software became very > expensive.
Tell me about it. At the time I worked on a online savings program that to save space always dropped the sign from the packed fields. You sure learned to do MVO like it was an MVC. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
