[JD1967]

I'm a little older, but similar. My first professional job was in 1985, programming in Cobol on Unix systems, on an accounting package. MS-DOS and IBM PC's were just becoming important, and we did later port to DOS, then Windows.

We used Acucobol, and yes, everything was in Cobol. Acucobol had the SCREEN SECTION and you could put up nice text UI forms on terminals. I did a lot of cool things with cursor-point-and-click menu systems, etc.

Once ported to Windows, and Acucobol's GUI controls, you couldn't tell the difference between a VB6 program and our Cobol programs. All native Windows controls.