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Back in the 1980s I worked for a guy who wrote accounting systems, mainly in COBOL for Wang VS systems, which were still a thing at the time. One of our clients
by Finnucane 10y ago
Back in the 1980s I worked for a guy who wrote accounting systems, mainly in COBOL for Wang VS systems, which were still a thing at the time. One of our clients had an old plugboard system--we were helping them replace it. There was one person left at the company who knew how to run it, and no one who knew how to program the plugboards. If anything happened to the boards, they were SOL.