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2010-05-06 , 08:59
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Originally Posted by zwer View Post
IBM System/3 using EBCDIC. The machine was working perfectly for 30 years in one factory, but they needed to change several offsets due to a change in their supplier of metal sheets which are now a tad bit shorter than the original program was written for, and the guy that used to do those adjustments died in the mean time...

Either way, it was a lot of fun... Everybody should try it, it really puts into perspective what programming is all about
I believe you and trust you but don't forget world will not stand stood and new generation of programmers incoming on the market without this legacy.

They are no longer teaching them at school c++. Java instead.
Try to learn one technology young generation and if you keep it in hand you are the monopolist within next 10 years. If you know the history so good don't you think that already happened couple of times?
IBM actually is here very good example and was telling ppl many years that Personal Computer is too small to have enough computing power.