COBOL will outlive us all

  • 8 September 2019
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An interesting article on ZDNet about the history of COBOL and why it may very well outlive us all. Micro Focus, the company maintaining COBOL, has a campaign to move COBOL apps to the cloud!


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It’s crazy how much business critical stuff runs on outdated hardware and software.

I don’t know what you’re talking about, I work perfectly fine on my VIC-20.

Userlevel 7

I think the US nuclear arsenal still uses floppy disks for their systems. On the plus side, harder to hack if they’re outdated technology that isn’t connected to the internet.

I think they still use 8 inches floppy disks, not even 5¼…


This company was my first computer job back in 1984.

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Run-time fees? OMG.

The program cost $495 and came on 5 ½ in floppy disks.