Can I make a career by learning mainframes and/or legacy computing...

Can I make a career by learning mainframes and/or legacy computing? I developed a passion for old technology and would like to transform that into something.

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COBOL is your only hope

Some CNC mills and other machines still use legacy OS's, but they never really break.

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no not with mainframes. but you can get a job working with MUMPS (which is run on commodity hardware on emulators)

Become a YouTuber just like LGR and 8BitGuy.

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Hell, there's not even an emulated PR1MOS instance in production anymore as far as I know.

What do you know?

Enough to teach a 40-year old UNIX about backspace

c/c++, cobol, pascal, perl, fortran, verilog, mips and a decent amount of assembly languages, some very minor vhdl

I learned all of them on my free time except c/c++, pascal, verilog and mips which were parts of my college curriculum

>can I make a career out of being 20 years behind the loop in technology

op I think you answered your own question

huh

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yes there are plenty off banks that use COBOL to run crucial software. But ol programming languages are a dead end career.

Previous company had a pick and place on 98 and one on DOS. There was a bloke we could call if things completely fucked up.

grow up onions boy, you will never be a boomer.

You'll probably go bald pulling your hair from fighting with DOS and Windows 98, so my advice is don't even bother. I like the idea of pandering to a niche market though.

From what I understand, many government and miltech centers still use legacy mainframes and equipment. Might be able to get a good paying job that way, the problem is just knowing the right people.

Hell, iirc, most missile silos still use floppy disks.

Depends on where you live. If in a first world country, probably it could be hard to get an entry level mainframe job, because those are migrated to low pay countries. In some third worlds you can get a mainframe job, if you got a high school degree and know a little english, they train you on the job. Salary is shit, sure it pays more than a factory work, but you can earn more if you are the IT guy troubleshooting printer issues for Windows 10. You need like 5+ years of experience if you want to move anywhere in this field and yet on any other field it is useless knowledge.
If you want to start, there is a mainframe emulator (beware it is not legal to download zos) and probably search some basic materials about navigating around in ispf and editing little jcl jobs. Usually there are specializations for "regions" of the mainframe. There are jobs where mainly you work only with security or storage or installing "apps", etc. Even for bigger softwares there are specialisation, for CICS, IMS who maybe knows some basics from the other fields but only knows well how to maintain those softwares on mainframe. And all of them you basically never see the hardware in life, thats a whole other story to became a hardware guy in mainframes.

a number of nuclear silos were built with IBM System/1 minicomputers as control systems, a lot of nuclear plants are going to continue operating PDP-11s well into the 2050s too

Best Windows (even after considering all the BSODs)

NT4 beat the shit out of it unless you were a brainlet

the only reason 9x existed was for video games and shitty old DOS software

>I developed a passion for old technology
You developed a faggotry from watching all those other faggots on youtube with the retro channels.
It's a phase, you'll get over it. Rent some pussy.

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