Very interesting Phil but note that the unknown craftsman did use a 4 digit
date and it has been clear for many centuries how long the product was
useable for. <g>
Graham
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>Friday.The 400-year-old instrument, which predicts the position of the
>planets, will stop working at the dawn of the new millennium, unable to
>accept the date of January 1, 2000, like many unadjusted computers
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>the world, museum curators said.The equatorium, built by an unknown
>craftsman in 1600, predicts the position of the Sun, Moon, other planets
>and even eclipses through a system of rotating discs and arms.But the
>last
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>time," said curator Martin Suggett.
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>LONDON (June 4, 1998 8:26 p.m. EDT http://www.nando.net) - The oldest time
>machine in the world destined to suffer from the millennium bug has been
>found in a museum in Liverpool in northwest England, it was reported
>Friday.The 400-year-old instrument, which predicts the position of the
>planets, will stop working at the dawn of the new millennium, unable to
>accept the date of January 1, 2000, like many unadjusted computers around
>the world, museum curators said.The equatorium, built by an unknown
>craftsman in 1600, predicts the position of the Sun, Moon, other planets
>and even eclipses through a system of rotating discs and arms.But the last
>date inscribed was 1999. "It must have seemed like an eternity at the
>time," said curator Martin Suggett.
>
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