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   Message 7,163 of 8,941   
   August Abolins to Janis Kracht   
   A Call For COBOL Programmers   
   08 Apr 20 17:42:00   
   
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   Hello Janis!   
      
   ** 08.04.20 - 16:50, Janis Kracht wrote to All:   
      
    JK>    In New Jersey, Gov.  Phil Murphy has put out a call for   
    JK>    volunteers who know how to code the decades-old computer   
    JK>    programming language called COBOL because many of the state's   
    JK>    systems still run on older mainframes..   
      
      
   Hey..  I worked with COBOL back in the day!   But I wouldn't do any of     
   that as a volunteer.  No way.   But I suppose someone might be willing to     
   donate their time for that grunge work.   
      
    JK>   ...43% of banking systems are built on COBOL and 95% percent of ATM     
    JK>   swipes rely on COBOL code.   
      
      
   I remember reading somewhere that most ATMs ran on OS/2 and even Linux and     
   then switched to a Windows variant.   
      
      
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