Old farts and new Linux

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 04 May 2004 20:30, chuck_sterling wrote:
>On Mon, 03 May 2004 19:14:23 -0300, Betti Ann & Preston Smith wrote:
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>> tests.  One month later I was learning COBOL, three months later I
>> was
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>Right around Y2K there was a story about an old COBOL programmer
> that was yanked out of retirement to fix the Y2K bugs in a small
> mountain of legacy COBOL code, still in use since the 70's or so.
> In fact there was too much work and pressure, and the old guy
> opted, with all his newfound wealth, to have himself frozen into
> suspended animation until Y2K was over and the constant hounding
> for his services would be ended. As luck would have it, someone
> dropped the ball, and for thousands of years he remained asleep,
> unaware of the passage of time. When finally he was thawed and
> awakened, he asked the doctor if it had worked and was it now the
> year 2000. The doctor apologized and told him that he had been
> forgotten and it was only a concerted search for talent that had
> brought them to awaken him. They had heard he knew COBOL, and Y10K
> was just around the corner...
>
ROTFLMAO!  Best story yet!

>Have a nice day...
>Chuck

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