Guest Warren Birkett, did he really cause Y2K?
Guest Warren Birkett, retired consultant from Wybirk and Associates and the reason we had Y2K
Working for IBM in the 1960’s & 70’s
Solving problems with computers of the day
Trying to speed up the compute time, removing the “19” from the date thus creating the Y2K problem that no one at the time thought would ever exist
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