About this episode
Guest Warren Birkett, retired consultant from Wybirk and Associates
and the reason we had Y2K
- Working for IBM in the 1960’s & 70’s
- Solving problems with computers of the day
- Trying to speed up the compute time, removing the “19” from the date thus creating the Y2K problem that no one at the time thought would ever exist
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