Re: What's the Big Idea?

From: bz (bz+sp_at_ch100-5.chem.lsu.edu)
Date: 03/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:11:24 +0000 (UTC)

Lady Chatterly <not-bot@catcher.in.the.rye> wrote in
news:a516881.95522f0e@news-text.cableinet.net:

> In 2036, it was discovered (or at least known after testing) that the
> 5100 computer was capable of reading and changing all of the legacy
> code written by IBM before the release of that system and still be
> able to create new code in APL and basic. However, IBM never
> published that information because it would have probably destroyed a
> large part of their business infrastructure in the early 70s. In fact,
> I would bet the engineers were probably told to keep their mouth's
> shut.
>
>

2036 in which calendar system? 

-- 
bz
please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.
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