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@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 > >