Mainframe nostalgia: COBOL ON COGS

Andrew Biss on June 4th 2010 in Articles

You just have to love the demo’s simulated phosphor burn-in

COBOL on Cogs homepage screenshot — The COBOL ON COGS site has some nice attention to period detail, including simulated 3270 terminal phosphor burn-in and a Y2K in-joke for those who’ve been around a while.

You’ve heard of Ruby on Rails, but what about all those COBOL developers? Well, we can goto COBOL ON COGS and reminisce. Pay attention as the screens change to bring back fond memories of the massive, built like a battleship, IBM 3270 green-screen terminals. A very nice touch!

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One comment so far

Simon Odell

March 12th 2011 at 13:43

LOL, they tried to force feed us COBOL at college, it gave me indigestion.

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