Fortunately, this sort of thing could never happen today

Posted by Mike on Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 151 views

It’s the mid-1970s, and this programmer pilot fish works for an IT service provider that supports several big insurance companies.

“We ran a huge (at that time) mainframe and a nationwide network and, of course, a large computer room,” says fish.

Read the rest of the Shark Tank here.

(bad) COBOL joke

Posted by Mike on Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 840 views

A computer without COBOL is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup and mustard.

COBOL Programmer vs Y2K

Posted by Mike on Monday, March 29, 2010 - 282 views

… an “oldie but a goodie” …

There was once a COBOL programmer in the mid to late 1990s. For the sake of this story, we’ll call him Jack. After years of being taken for granted and treated as a technological dinosaur by all the UNIX programmers and Client/Server programmers and website developers, Jack was finally getting some respect. He’d become a private consultant specializing in Year 2000 conversions. He was working short-term assignments for prestige companies, traveling all over the world on different assignments, and making more money than he’d ever dreamed of.

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