[vorbis] International Standard Recording Code

[Marshall Eubanks]

It wasn't the memory, it was the punched cards! It used
to be, you printed output on IBM punched cards with 80 characters.
IBM printers and terminals also only did 80 (later 132) characters. It could
be a real stretch getting a whole transaction summary (say) to fit into
80 or 132 characters. Using 2 digit dates was part of that. If you were
only printing 2 digits, you were only storing 2 digits.

I used to have 100's of boxes of punched cards (80 kilobytes per box)
in my office - it was my archival memory circa 1976.

BTW, some of the code I wrote then is still in use.

No, I never walked 3 miles in the snow uphill both ways. I did once
drop an important programming project once into a Boston slush
puddle. It took me over a week to retype all the cards...

Marshall

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:29:48PM -0500, Keith Wright wrote:
> [snip]
> > The Y2K problem was so overhyped that my _plumber_ laughs at
> > programmers for being so stupid as to put the date in two bytes.
> > It's not like two bytes are valuable anymore, it takes
> > a couple MB to store a sound long enough to be worth numbering.
> > This scheme was born obsolete.  I don't know what is the earliest
> [snip]
> 
> not to mention that two-bytes could just as well represent 30768 BCE to
> 34768 CE, or at least 1352 CE to 2648 CE using easily printable base 36.
> 

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