I loved going through core dumps and coding in BAL. I got good at debugging that hex code but there was a lot of stress to get everything fixed fast. Kinda miss some of it but time moves on.
I almost got my shawl caught in the card reader. Lucky it wasn't my hair. Some jams, not too bad.
Remember the long shelf with the books? I confess I had to learn with a dumbed down version . . .
Honestly I don’t miss it. I liked Fortran and some Cobol. As an engineer we didn’t use cobol - business school did - but when I was at AT+T during y2k work I was going through their cobol code and dealing with making sure year dates were handled correctly.
It is nice to know there are people who understand the term “floor sort” still around....we know it related to punched cards. Others,not so much.
Kinda miss some of it but time moves on.
So it was you that caused the y2k bug! : )
You were in a hurry and decided to leave off the 2 digits....