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Me neither.

But I asked for a bank statement from my old savings account a few years old and it took two weeks to print out, printed in monospace dot matrix.

Or the betting company that I was a customer that suspends betting everyday 6:30am for an hour for daily maintainance. Ironically, they would accept bets for football matches played at the time, but the system was shut down.

I suspect both are run on COBOL.



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