State of New Jersey needs COBOL programmers

[Neil Thompson]

Yeah, my contract to a large University fixing all their COBOL stuff
finished in October 1998.

On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 at 16:29, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On 4/5/20 12:54 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> > On 4/4/20 9:47 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> >> On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Jeffrey Brace via cctalk wrote:
> >>>
> https://josephsteinberg.com/covid-19-response-new-jersey-urgently-needs-cobol-programmers-yes-you-read-that-correctly/
> >>>
> >>
> >> In December 1999, they were looking for COBOL programmers.
> >>
> >
> > To be fair, in 1999, everybody under the sun was looking for COBOL
> > programmers.
> >
>
> Not really.  The Y2K problem had been addressed and fixed on all
> the real computer systems long before that.
>
>
> PRIMOS 23.4.Y2K.R1
> ------------------
> Copyright (c) Prime Computer, Inc. 1988
>
> A Y2K version of the OS released in 1988.
>
> bill
>
>