@thomasbeagle @EricLawton the end user experience was pretty good, but waiting for the turn around of batch compilations of the cobol and the delivery of the printed listing of the cobol program with it's missing full stop errors were a bit of a chore sometimes. :)
Fixing the errors using a terminal rather than replacing punch cards was a huge step forward!
@Glodav @EricLawton Thankfully we were a bit more modern than that! (Although my dad was a Cobol programmer in those days).
But our developers loved it when I deployed Windows PCs for workstations so that they could finally have multiple terminal sessions without relying on screen.
@thomasbeagle @EricLawton I feel privileged to have been exposed to the early days of it all, and the gradual changes have have been exciting to see. Sometimes I feel like a frog in a pan of water on the stove, and I should have jumped out a while ago.