To: softengine
Banks are dinosaurs. They're using old-fashioned tape technology and plain-text. I'm surprised the headline wasn't "Bank loses deck of punch cards".
10 posted on
06/08/2005 2:31:09 PM PDT by
FreedomAvatar
(Gravity is only a theory - Teach the controversy)
To: FreedomAvatar
Banks are dinosaurs.I got a friend in Mississippi who repairs and fixes bank teller machines. He said the ones he works on use OS/2 Warp.
13 posted on
06/08/2005 2:33:16 PM PDT by
BigSkyFreeper
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To: FreedomAvatar
Commercial software is very conservative. That is, prehistoric. Same in the medical industry. ASCII screens, still. It must have something to do with the nature of the customer.
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