[–] G45Colt_II [S] ago
I went to school with a guy who ended up being a mainframe guru. Even had (probably still has) one in his basement. Haven't talked to him in ages, but he kept finding places that had old equipment and needed his unique set of skills.
[–] fundie 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Haha, that stuff was ancient even when I started working on it in ‘90 or so. The first time I saw a system/36 I was like “what’s up with the washing machine in the office?” Those 8” floppies were the size of frisbees...I thought I was going to be writing code in C/C++, silly fool.
When I joined the Navy that ended my IT career. we didn’t call it IT back then, we just called ourselves programmers. So I ended up becoming a plumber, go figure. A few years back I was bullshitting with one of my customers telling him how I used to write code in RPGII on the system/36 and he said they still have legacy systems in use and they needed coders because nobody knows how to do that stuff anymore, and the money wasn’t bad...Maybe it’s time to get back into IT, eh?
[–] quantum1234 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
OMG,,,Pres. Trump was right again...he said that their systems were very old and we wouldn't be getting checks for a while...he wanted the federal government to be responsible! the bill left up distribution to the states!
[–] LIghtStrat 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
yup. so people would be begging for another bill with more money because most small businesses won't see that money for quite some time. and the demonrats can make another run at getting their "mail in voting" pushed through.
[–] Alderwolf 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
No, let the people suffer the consequences of their vote or lack there of. Maybe they will start paying attention to what corruption is doing with their money.