Originally Posted by
RobbieRunner
My CI$ ID started with EITHER a 7 or a 1. I thought I knew, but now I'm not SURE! AGH! The problem is, the FIRST set of numbers before the comma started with either a 7 or a 1, and the 2nd set of numbers ALSO started with a 7 or a 1. I THINK my CI$ was 7xxxx,1xxx but I MAY have that in REVERSE. It's simply been too long. Not just a lot of water under the bridge, but a whole ocean under it since then.
Not exactly. The original CI$ user ids were in the format, 7xxxx,xxxx, although there were not always four digits after the comma. The first digit after the comma in my account number was a 3.
(I seem to recall some people referring to this as an "octal" system but I have no idea what that means.)
When CI$ supposedly ran out of numbers, they went to a new system where the numbers began with 1s. Thus, for a time, when you saw someone with a 1, he or she was identified as a newbie.