I started as a Cobol programmer in 1981. The bank I was working at when I retired 37 years later still had its core banking system running on Cobol, with a handful of aging techies who had any chance… (View Post)

TSE is on holiday until the 1st of March. Oh shit :-( (View Post)

We do love a potential PM resignation on PB. How many times did we predict the fall of May, Johnson and Sunak before events caught up with our excitement for the first two? (which it never did for Su… (View Post)

Best wishes for your sister. (View Post)

Good grief Big_G is your memory ok? What about: - Rationing persisting on into the 1950s - Suez Crisis 1956 - Three-day week & power cuts 1974 - IMF bail out 1976 - Winter of Discontent 1979 - Co… (View Post)