• Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Banking systems running COBOL on IBM mainframes. So archaic that even hackers can’t understand the code, and if they did the bank would pay them voluntarily tp sort it out, and the hackers would say no, because COBOL, eww.

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      8 months ago

      I actually have a friend who is the old meme – his mother is a sysadmin for a small regional bank and he’s been training under her for years to take over when she retires. No one in the open market can even begin to understand what she does.