'Patronising' Radio 3 boss etc.

[Frances_iom]

Perhaps 21st century would have conveyed the meaning more clearly.[/QUOTE]
maybe he wanted to include the year 2000 for some special reason

[jean]

It arises from this, doesn't it?

The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the Millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or simply Y2K) was a problem for both digital (computer-related) and non-digital documentation and data storage situations that resulted from the practice of truncating a four-digit year to two digits. This made year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900. The former assumption that a twentieth-century date was always understood caused various errors concerning, in particular, the display of dates and the automated ordering of dated records or real-time events...

I presume they solved the problem as far as the computers were concerned, but the term stuck around in contexts where it was never needed.

[subcontrabass]

The spat continues: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...continues.html

This also got a mention in this morning's Times (not a paper I normally read, but it was all that was available while waiting for a meeting this morning).

[MrGongGong]

I presume they solved the problem as far as the computers were concerned, but the term stuck around in contexts where it was never needed.

Are music theory exams still marked out of 99?
The (probably an urban myth) story always used to be that they only had a computer with a 2 digit display

[french frank]

The spat continues: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...continues.html

This also got a mention in this morning's Times (not a paper I normally read, but it was all that was available while waiting for a meeting this morning).

Most of that is old hat: not so much the 'spat' continuing as the press fanning the flames in the hope of a conflagration..

The only new thing is the claim that the D Telegraph has seen a draft of Radio 3's response to the BBC Trust (which FoR3 has already responded to). The claim that CFM was 'put together by computer' was certainly true when it first started, with Robin Ray feeding in the suitably 'accessible' pieces of music which were then played at regular intervals - still a hallmark of the CFM playlists.

Did Radio 3 really refer to 'speaking between songs'? I.e like between the Bach's Concerto for violin and oboe and Tchaikovsky's February (from the Seasons) - those 'songs'?

Radio 3 still has some way to go to rid itself of RW's CFM-itis but it is now, er, trying

[VodkaDilc]

Are music theory exams still marked out of 99?
The (probably an urban myth) story always used to be that they only had a computer with a 2 digit display

My possibly inacurate memory suggests that the 99 mark goes back to a time when computers were unheard of at the Associated Board.