Hi Jen, David ---

On the subject of Babbage, there's a fascinating speculative novel called "The Difference Engine" by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson that came out about 5 years ago where the subject is what things would be like if Babbage *had* succeeded.


>Actually the 6-digit computer date problem is not specific to 2000AD. It would happen any change of century. It's the rollover from "99" to "00" that is the killer. If Babbage had been successful we might have found ourselves with a YMCM problem instead of a YMM (aka Y2K) problem. :-)
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