Just found out that Mike (Spitfire BBS) has passed.
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/west-des-moines-ia/michael-woltz- 110 72625
Thanks Mike for the amazing times in the early 90s on my 14" VGA and even in 2021 when you fixed some bulletin bugs and sent me updated spitfire.exe and spitfire.ovr files.
It was an exciting day when this showed up: http://x-bit.org/info/sf_woltz.jpg
Blessings to the Woltz family.
Just found out that Mike (Spitfire BBS) has passed.
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/west-des-moines-ia/michael-woltz- 110 72625
Thanks Mike for the amazing times in the early 90s on my 14" VGA and even in 2021 when you fixed some bulletin bugs and sent me updated spitfire.exe and
Just found out that Mike (Spitfire BBS) has passed.
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/west-des-moines-ia/michael-wolt z-110 72625
Just found out that Mike (Spitfire BBS) has passed.
There are not a lot of 70 year olds monking with anything IT based. :(
There are not a lot of 70 year olds monking with anything IT based. :(
There are where I work. Maybe not quite 70, but they are getting close if they are not already.
I do not plan to be one of them, mind you. :)
MRO wrote to Dumas Walker <=-
you must be the only guy working with old guys in IT.
i never heard of such a thing.
MRO wrote to Dumas Walker <=-
you must be the only guy working with old guys in IT.
i never heard of such a thing.
You must not work in a shop that still uses COBOL and/or a mainframe. ;)
Re: Re: Sad news: Mike Woltz
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sat Apr 15 2023 05:46 pm
MRO wrote to Dumas Walker <=-
you must be the only guy working with old guys in IT.
i never heard of such a thing.
You must not work in a shop that still uses COBOL and/or a mainframe. ;)
govt and banks and other industries still use cobol.
internet says it's still a high demand. i dont think it's just fossils that know cobol now.
if people want a job working with cobol they have to learn it.
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I remember a recent Linux Magazine column in which they mentioned some big techcompany had just spent a lot of megabucks creating a new COBOL compiler. A friend of mine who works at an HP division told me once some of their customersare very big on COBOL. It might not be popular, but if corps are creating
compilers for it from scratch and investing tonnes of money in it it must be because other corps are willing to buy it.
There are not a lot of 70 year olds monking with anything IT based. :(
There are where I work. Maybe not quite 70, but they are getting close if they are not already.
I do not plan to be one of them, mind you. :)
I do not plan to be one of them, mind you. :)
govt and banks and other industries still use cobol.
internet says it's still a high demand. i dont think it's just fossils that know cobol now.
if people want a job working with cobol they have to learn it.
that know cobol now.
if people want a job working with cobol they have to learn it.
Unless they have started doing it again recently, most schools no longer teach it. When I was in college (1988-93), they only were teaching COBOL to engineering students. Those of us in the "not engineering" IT program
could not take it.
Dumas Walker wrote to MRO <=-
Unless they have started doing it again recently, most schools no
longer teach it. When I was in college (1988-93), they only were
teaching COBOL to engineering students. Those of us in the "not engineering" IT program could not take it.
When I started where I work now, in 1997, they would train candidates,
and that is where I learned it. They stopped doing that around 2003
when it was decided that COBOL, and the mainframe, were "going away."
They started hiring JAVA and M$-based developers.
20 years later, all those decision makers are long gone, but we still
have a mainframe, and it still runs mostly COBOL code and handles the
bulk of our processing. Most of those JAVA/etc. developers are also
long gone.
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