Posted on 08/20/2020 7:44:40 AM PDT by 11th_VA
nope, only worked COBOL for ~1 year then transferred to the engineering/R&D section of the company and they were a strictly DEC/ForTran shop... never looked back
COBOL, Fortran, and Assembler... Burroughs 3500.. Hire me!
I could be a COBOL cowboy. I used to be good at it.
Well, the dinosaurs had died out by '89 and green CRT's were in. Dumb terminals or tty was all the rage so the cards got delegated to the stockroom lol
Does that mean my old Commodore Vic-20 out in the garage is worth something lolol?
Cobol was easy to port across platforms. I wrote a regional Airline package on a System-34, ported over to System-36, then an IBM-RISC 6000 Unix server and then finally a PC Windows based network. Porting the software was a piece of cake.
I spent many years writing COBOL on a VAX.
I would be very willing to transition those skills to another platform.
I think it would be fun.
yup... got me 2/3 the way around the world on the company dime
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