5 Apr
2020
5 Apr
'20
11:04 a.m.
Not sure about that. I worked for Pershing in Jersey City around that time. They were
(are?) a clearing house for tens of millions of dollars' worth of stock and bond
trades every day. Lots of cobol to be remediated still in 1999. Oh, and I also worked on
decimalization (stocks used to be traded in 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, and 1/16ths of a dollar)
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Bill Gunshannon via
cctalk
Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2020 10:29 AM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: State of New Jersey needs COBOL programmers
On 4/5/20 12:54 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 4/4/20 9:47 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Not really. The Y2K problem had been addressed and fixed on all the real computer systems
long before that.
PRIMOS 23.4.Y2K.R1
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Copyright (c) Prime Computer, Inc. 1988
A Y2K version of the OS released in 1988.
bill
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Jeffrey Brace via cctalk
wrote:
To be fair, in 1999, everybody under the sun was looking for COBOL
programmers.
https://josephsteinberg.com/covid-19-response-new-jersey-urgently-ne
eds-cobol-programmers-yes-you-read-that-correctly/
In December 1999, they were looking for COBOL programmers.