Re: Y2K glitch??? or just a little time travel?

[Brian Vita <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

The phone system in my office (Vodavi 1428) shows today's date as 
"01-03-A0".  I guess that I have to visit the Vodavi web site.

Brian

At 12:19 PM 1/3/00 -0500, Shawn Mamros wrote:
> >Our commercial playback system at work (the ODETICS TCS-2000) went from
> >12/31/99 to 01/01/:0 .
> >It doesnt accept anything else except 80-99. I wonder what year :0 is? =)
>
>Interesting...  The ':' character is the character that comes after '9'
>in ASCII.  Looks like it does realize that it is the "decade after the
>90's", but doesn't quite know how to represent that on the readout.
>So I guess that on January 1, 2010 it'll display "01/01/;0", then in
>the subsequent decades it'll cycle through "<0", "=0", ">0", "?0"
>and "@0" before starting a cycle of "A0", "B0", etc... assuming it
>runs that long. :-)
>
>-Shawn Mamros (who does this sort of stuff for a living...)
>E-mail to: mamros@mit.edu

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