Subj : Re: Today in History - 1
To   : Mike Powell
From : Dave Drum
Date : Tue Aug 08 2023 05:06 am

-=> Mike Powell wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 > Check many state agencis and school districts here in Illinois. One of
 > the guys I meet with monthly for pizza and beverage got his current gig
 > w/Illinois Department on Aging because he can maintain and modify the
 > COCOL code running on their old Burroughs mainframe.  Bv)=

 MP> I assume you mean COBOL?  That is a skill that I also have.  Here,
 MP> there are still state systems that run on an IBM mainframe.  There are
 MP> also one or two non-mainframe systems that include some PC-COBOL
 MP> modules.

Fat fingered that one, didn't I? Laszlo also does Fortran. Me, I haven't
done any coding since the Amiga took the gas pipe. And that was mostly
basic and some (very) simple assembler.

.... Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.
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