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• But in 1963, 1 MB of mainframe storage cost about $175 a month to lease (that's about $10,600 per year per MB in 1995 dollars or nearly 1 million percent more than the 1996 cost). So, to save money we continued to use 2-digit year fields. And economic reasons were why we continued this space saving practice.

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