I was impressed by the picture of a z13 in an article talking about 40 year old machines.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Steve Smith [sasd...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 12:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: COBOL help for NJ Really? 40-year-old mainframes? That's close to impossible, and certainly ridiculous. I'm sure many of you remember better than me, but 1980 was the era of needing a megawatt or so to generate 20 MIPS or something like that. If you could find the parts and the expertise to keep it going. sas On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 11:44 AM Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the original article ( > https://secure-web.cisco.com/12_JKakBUzTAfWnVAfkM0izoXjTaKgj4xDrZKAHKxX6XAVITPysR-0E5xjOVre_LcykV3OKgLNYb99cnzBWs-mM-UbNUzT64BlWSiYJB5Pzd9Rs1ar1tz6koaSW2CZ6tLYclAFX7kV5MYXCiG_FO_FU_WpTqtmoI6nKZJRYTtAY5Vvoj-1g6HaLTGDG89VZPkfU10neGUgWuBwW4jO4inP4UouOawchOpnkZjxuwJAOdOUnO307w7OP62qzQnDIGH0sfrpyp6F5BcBT9rc8AaJS3NpTxXXn0K90qCXKgc1aqhPt69-GJtHI5c4S2SB528_3lAZf6PiUIR0kIA5KLHkTqBZo4ks-fF4BZ45Sz9Ic80HgCB5t_nyct9wsh7igEyaNVGwgFmwkuWBebNeCHhyV1wBVyRqWM7Qt5ndvF4Duufq-NCXdAbq9o_TP5u7FYfxRjWxYC0xqWAvcUgr83BdA/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomshardware.com%2Fnews%2Fnew-jersey-cobol-coders-mainframes-coronavirus%29 > it said “The governor of New Jersey made a seemingly odd call for help last > night: The state desperately needs COBOL programmers to revamp the > 50-year-old software powering the 40-year-old mainframes behind the state's > unemployment system”. When I reread the article yesterday I noticed there > was a link ( > https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2020/04/04/coronavirus-nj-40-year-old-system-adds-delay-unemployment-checks/2944985001/) > attached to "odd call for help last night". So I clicked on the link. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
