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Article #633116Re: Y2K False Alarm or Programmers LOOT the Public Purse (was: millennium Reading)
From: in... D. P. Roberts
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 00:00
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>We all know what he was speaking of, if you want to get into semantics >"really ancient computers" have probably blown all of their vacuum tubes >by now. And you'd need a couple of redwoods to make a desk to support >one. Yes. . .but the really ancient COBOL programs are still around. What language did those wire grids with the iron beads use?
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