http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/25/us_nuclear_guidance_system_running_on_8inch_floppies/
The Department of Homeland Security is using an eight-year-old IBM System z10 mainframe using COBOL for some of its personnel systems, and the Department of Justice is also using the archaic language for its primary database on prison inmates. COBOL == ARCHAIC hmmm! should be more like COBOL == WELL TESTED! regards Bruce Hewson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
