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Old Sep 27, 2014 | 05:22 PM
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Wouldja believe I've got some office servers under contract that are running AcuCOBOL-GT? The application vendor just installed an application upgrade yesterday, in fact. At least they haven't had the stunningly stupid idea of rewriting it all in Java.

Never heard of that flavor of COBOL, but where I'm going it's CICS on a server stack.

As far as the second part of your story -- the idiots at the FAA were conned by *someone* that ASP.Net is "the way to go", and these morons think that [if] the Airmen system is migrated from mainframe ADABAS/Natural
to VB.Net that Phase 3 means "upgrading" to ASP.Net.

FOR A FRIKKING OFFICE ENVIRONMENT!!!!
 
Old Sep 27, 2014 | 05:38 PM
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Its been about 3 years, but today I decided to awaken the beast. Forgot how loud this thing is. It beats your chest in at idle. Fired right up though.

 
Old Sep 27, 2014 | 05:45 PM
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^Had a 76 once, Fire Engine Red. Nice ride! See ya at the gas pumps....K.
 
Old Sep 27, 2014 | 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Mopar Mike
Its been about 3 years, but today I decided to awaken the beast. Forgot how loud this thing is. It beats your chest in at idle. Fired right up though.

79 isn't it? What engine? (I love firebirds.....)
 
Old Sep 27, 2014 | 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Gary-L
Never heard of that flavor of COBOL, but where I'm going it's CICS on a server stack.

As far as the second part of your story -- the idiots at the FAA were conned by *someone* that ASP.Net is "the way to go", and these morons think that [if] the Airmen system is migrated from mainframe ADABAS/Natural
to VB.Net that Phase 3 means "upgrading" to ASP.Net.

FOR A FRIKKING OFFICE ENVIRONMENT!!!!

What the heck is COBOL lol... I know it's a programming language, never even looked at a line of COBOL code personally.

Since the subject is out there...

Anyone ever used REXX? (Think: DOS days...)
 
Old Sep 27, 2014 | 06:38 PM
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79 isn't it? What engine? (I love firebirds.....)
Heavily built Pontiac 400. I'm not sure whats all done to it, but my brother has more than twice as much in the engine than what he paid for the entire car. Have the original numbers matching 301 engine put away.

Unfortunately, my brother's going through a divorce, so he asked me to get it out of the garage, and try to sell it.

Tincan's right. It'll pass everything except a gas pump.
 
Old Sep 27, 2014 | 07:05 PM
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Sell it? Bummer. Should be worth some good money though, especially with the original engine.

A Formula that came with a 301?? talk about anemic.....
 
Old Sep 27, 2014 | 11:09 PM
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Nice Firebird! Always liked them!

I don't know anything about COBOL, but I use C# just about every day.
 
Old Sep 28, 2014 | 02:37 AM
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As far as the second part of your story -- the idiots at the FAA were conned by *someone* that ASP.Net is "the way to go"
Someone at the FAA obviously sees nothing at all wrong with dating outside one's own species. Ain't no new news here, eh?
 
Old Sep 28, 2014 | 02:54 AM
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What the heck is COBOL lol... I know it's a programming language, never even looked at a line of COBOL code personally.
Consider yourself fortunate. It makes my brain ache to see that crap, even though I was once proficient in it.

Originally Posted by aofarrell2
Anyone ever used REXX? (Think: DOS days...)
Or Amiga daze, eh? IIRC I saw it in OS/2 once.
 



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