> 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
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