The Legacy IT Show: Recent Episodes
Michael Madden
Assembler, COBOL and all things Legacy IT. Modernisation, migration, languages and databases. Join us on a journey through the darkest corners of Legacy IT.
My forty-year career in IT blossomed in the late 1970s as I learned a valuable lesson about continuous stationery and undertook my first legacy modernisation project.
2018 sees the fortieth anniversary of my first job. It was in IT – and I never left! To ‘celebrate’ I have delved into my mental history books to illustrate the forty-year journey… Part 1 - Cards And Catastrophes looks at the beginning of my career in a local brewery.
COBOL celebrates its 60th birthday in 2019. This is the last in a three part podcast looking at the cultural and technological changes that it has endured within its lifetime. Approaching the new millennium the spectre of Y2K loomed large…
COBOL celebrates its 60th birthday in 2019. This is the second in a three part podcast looking at the cultural and technological changes that it has endured within its lifetime.
COBOL celebrates its 60th birthday in 2019. This is the first episode of a three-part podcast that explores the technological and cultural changes that it has endured in its lifetime.