[Year 12 IT Apps] user manuals, old joke

[Savage, John L]

A lovely punchline.

An entrepreneur acquaintance of my son’s located a small group of COBOL programmers in South-east Asia, he set them up in a house together in NZ and pays them many times what they earned back home.

BTW I learned and hated COBOL.

Laurie Savage

From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of ken price
Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2014 1:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] user manuals, old joke

I thought this article was a joke too - but it appears to be serious. It refers to a shortage of COBOL programmers.

http://simplicity.laserfiche.com/content/looking-job-hows-your-cobol

BUT - there is a rather apt joke right at the end of it.

Ken Price
DoE Tasmania

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Savage, John L <savage.john.l at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:savage.john.l at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
Does anybody remember that beautiful old boot error message. “Keyboard not found, press F1 to continue.”?

Laurie Savage
http://accelerus.pvgc.vic.edu.au




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