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Titor claimed to be a serving soldier who was recruited to a governmental time travel project. He was supposedly sent from 2036 back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer which he claimed was needed to overcome a Unix bug - Unix-based machines would no longer function after 2038 - a known bug related to the 32-bit nature of the Unix clock.
This is referring to the Epoch bug, which is set to hit UNIX around 2038 will it be an event? or the next Y2k is unknown.
http://www.2038.org