Programmers who before the 1980s put only two digits in the year/datefield, did not make a millennium cock-up: they saved millions, writes TimStammers.
US consultants have said that high storage costs in the 1960s ruled out the use of four-digit fields. And although the cost of storage has fallen one-thousand fold since then, the savings over the ...
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