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I don’t. No. This isn’t real. He’s lying, surely he’s lying. It’s just a person on the internet making a joke right?

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I’d believe it’s real. In 2016 I was at a company trying to migrate off an old IBM mainframe and green screens. It wasn’t like an airline with complex or critical code; it was just a barely functional ERP for a warehouse. Source control was the furthest thing from their minds. Some companies and IT departments are very reluctant to change, regardless of how much time and money it save.

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The kind of place where “backups” means playing Russian Roulette with one set of old ass tapes, if you’re lucky.

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Yeah, it was all tapes. We only had to use them once when I worked there: after finding out the UPS connected to the mainframe was a dud. And then it really was roulette because the first two tapes were unreadable, so we ended up with three week old data.

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