[LINK] Schwarzenegger pay plans thwarted by COBOL

[Adam Todd]

At 07:40 07/08/2008, David Boxall wrote:
><http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2223408/schwarzenegger-pay-plans-cobol>
> > Terminator brought down by ancient code
> > California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's plans to reduce all state
> > employees pay to the minimum wage are being blocked because the
> > payroll system is run on COBOL.
>...
> > State Controller John Chiang told the Senate Committee on Governmental
> > Organization that this was impossible as the payroll system was
> > written 30 years ago in COBOL and there weren't enough programmers to
> > do the job.

Wow, sounds like a job I should apply for!  Or maybe someone can 
refer me!  I still program in COBOL :)

Gosh that brings back memories - CP/M, 8086's ...