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Comment by woodruffw

They may just be lore at this point, but I've heard stories from friends in the government about older IRS records being kept on punchcards and read into S/360 family machines. The VA is also apparently heavily dependent on a legacy MUMPS[1] codebase, although that could run on more modern machines in principle.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

parent woodruffw 10 years ago

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