Klarinet Archive - Posting 000147.txt from 2000/01

From: Christian Budde <budde@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: [[kl] Re: Y2K]
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 06:08:58 -0500

> As to computers being invented in the last half of the last century - go
> back to your history books. They've been around a bit longer than that.
> Babbages analytical engine (the first 1/7th of it) was assembled and
> demonstrated in 1832, a bit before the 1st half of the last century. A bit
> before the 1st half of this century (1945) ENIAC had its final assembly.

Yes, I know and I read what Lady Lovelace wrote about babagge's analytical
engine... :-)
I was focusing on microcomputers as we use them today (porting a program
from the analytical engine to a modern computer would result in
recoding). And I don't want to fight about a few years. So lets take
1945 (still, porting an eniac program would be a task with questionable
sense).

>
> The 21st century starts at the beginning of next year.
Here's what Ranga Yogeshwar (sp?), from a local TV (WDR) said about this:
"It's true, but don't tell anybody, so we can celebrate twice!"

Concerning the leap year: as we are totally off topic, we should wait
until march and see what happens.

Greetings,
Christian

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