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|    August Abolins to Janis Kracht    |
|    A Call For COBOL Programmers    |
|    08 Apr 20 17:42:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet e339d1e0       REPLY: 1:261/38.0 33c6b6af       PID: OpenXP/5.0.43 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0400       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.                      ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.43        * Origin: /|ug's Point, Ont. CANADA (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 154/10 203/0 221/1 6 360 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/101 200 426 1014 240/5832 249/206 307 317 400 280/464       SEEN-BY: 280/5003 5555 288/100 292/854 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 423/81 120 633/280 712/848 770/1 2452/250       PATH: 221/1 280/464 229/426           |
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