Translated from Latin scroll dated 2BC --
Dear Cassius:
Are you still working on the Y zero K problem? This change
from BC to AD is giving us a lot of headaches and we haven't much time left.
I don't know how people will cope with working the wrong way around. Having
been working happily downwards forever, now we have to start thinking
upwards. You would think that someone would have thought of it earlier and
not left it to us to sort it all out at this last minute.
I spoke to Caesar the other evening. He was livid that
Julius hadn't done something about it when he was sorting out the calendar.
He said he could see why Brutus turned nasty. We called in Consultus, but he
simply said that continuing downwards using minus BC won't work and as usual
charged a fortune for doing nothing useful. Surely we will not have to throw
out all our hardware and start again? MACROHARD will make yet another
fortune out of this I suppose.
The money lenders are paranoid of course! They have been
told that all usery rates will invert and they will have to pay their
clients to take out loans. Its an ill wind ......
As for myself, I just can't see the sand in an hourglass
flowing upwards. We have heard that there are three wise men in the East who
have been working on the problem, but unfortunately they won't arrive until
it's all over. I have heard that there are plans to stable all horses at
midnight at the turn of the year as there are fears that they will stop and
try to run backwards, causing immense damage to chariots and possible loss
of life. Some say the world will cease to exist at the moment of transition.
Anyway, we are still continuing to work on this blasted Y
zero K problem. I will send a parchment to you if anything further develops.
If you have any ideas please let me know,
Plutonius
