Posted on 08/20/2020 7:44:40 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Where do I sign up?
Our computer folks were state of the art. The big computer was a CDC 6400. And some IBMs, I think. Turn in your cards in the afternoon, and your printout would be ready the next day.
At the time I was doinking around with punchcards the school up the street had a fleet of Macintoshes and a Cray Supercomputer. So yeah, a bit out of date.
It’s very easy to learn.
Our vendor sent us a new version of one of a COBOL program. They had added a PERFORM of an error routine in every paragraph to check for errors. Unfortunately, they added it to EVERY paragraph including the error routine.
Guessed those dinosaurs laughed all the way to the bank!
I have a set of mint punch cards from Ebay that I paid a whopping dollar for.
Something to have.
I think punch cards, early Mannix comes to mind.
LOL!
Still use ‘em....but the most modern verions of RPG looks nothing like the old stuff...no more bound by columns...here is the new “Chain:”
Chain (CPSQ2:PartId:PrtSeq) LibPsq ;
Looks more like C
Yep...”Thin Clients” as they now call them..
Lucky for me I got in the business not long after punch cards were all but gone...thanks the Lord...
The article actually mentions that the COBOL is usually not the problem. Outdated hardware is. And the lack of COBOL understanding in the new generation of software engineers.
COBOL, like the FORTRAN is pretty close to the way computers still work inside, so it is running faster than most of the present day programs. which involve layers and layers of software to enable them. I prefer FORTRAN, COBOL is too wordy.
But, where can I apply?
At least ...
Chain (CPSQ2:PartId:PrtSeq) LibPsq ;
Greek to me.
RPG II for 8 years in another life in the mid/late 80s, early 90s.
You mean the end of the myrieteris. We have until Dec. 12, 9999. Then all hell breaks loose again and COBOL fossils will need to be taken out of cryogenic pods and given their old jobs back.
Do they need a room-sized IBM mainframe and a stack of punch cards to operate the system?
-—We have until Dec. 12, 9999——
what happens on 01.01.010101???
I knew a guy who was laid off years ago as obsolete, became a paramedic. He’s celebrating this now, though he admits they should have changed years ago. And too many younger programmers and project managers don’t understand you can’t just port it to an app.
Vacuum tube radio sound is still the best.
I don’t know, but on 01010101...well...U know.
“Did you by any chance inherit code from ‘Mel’?”
No but I inherited IBM 1401 Overlay code from Ivan the Terrible that sometimes worked.
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