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|    Dave Drum to Mike Powell    |
|    Re: Today in History - 1    |
|    08 Aug 23 05:06:00    |
      TZUTC: -0400       MSGID: 700.fido-classicc@1:3634/12 29374cb8       REPLY: 1250.clascomp@1:2320/105 29365ba8       PID: Synchronet 3.18a-Linux May 23 2020 GCC 7.5.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.11-Linux r3.173 May 23 2020 GCC 7.5.0       CHRS: ASCII 1       -=> 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.       --- MultiMail/Win v0.52        * Origin: SouthEast Star Mail HUB - SESTAR (1:3634/12)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 15/0 18/0 200 90/1 105/81 106/201 116/116 120/616       SEEN-BY: 123/0 10 25 126 131 180 200 525 755 3001 129/305 135/115       SEEN-BY: 135/300 153/7715 154/10 50 218/700 220/90 222/2 226/18 30       SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/110 112 113 206 275 307 317 400 426 428 452 470       SEEN-BY: 229/664 700 240/1120 250/1 266/512 275/1000 282/1038 291/111       SEEN-BY: 292/854 299/6 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58       SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848 1321 2320/105 3634/0 12 24 27 56 57 119 5020/1042       SEEN-BY: 5075/35       PATH: 3634/12 154/10 229/426           |
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