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by punk-coder
2841 days ago
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Back in 1996, I lived in Columbus, GA. There are a couple companies down there that used Mainframes for their processing. Synovous/TSYS, AFLAC and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Those companies teamed up with Columbus State University to provide a program for people to learn how to program in the technologies they used: - Cobol, CICS, Rexx
- DB2, IMS, VSAM
- JCL You got paid to go to 6 months of school, and if you already had a Bachelors degree, you got a second one for the classes you took. You went from 9 - 5 each day, and you were guaranteed a job at one of those companies, and if you worked for at least 4 years, you didn't have to pay back the loan you got to go through the training. I was part of the second group of people that trained, and it started my professional career as a developer. Once Y2K was done, I moved on from mainframe programming to Java and .NET. |
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