Anxiety runs high as Pa. begins massive overhaul of 60-year-old unemployment computer system

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3. Ha ha heh...that's probably what they are using to power this system ... gee, can you imagine

what the software engineers/hardware engineers are going to have to shift through, in resolving patch after patch after patch added in the 60 years or so to keep this system going? Let alone examining the specs that will be delivered to the technicians (if such a document is delivered).

Wow...I wouldn't want to be part of this process, being that more than likely, documentation is patchy, and a multitude of languages and/or database structures were used as time went on in coding this system (or patch work of systems)? Perhaps it's a tribute to those who struggled to keep this going without the adequate resources to upgrade the system finally to a more efficient system. How do they even find software engineers who still know how to code in assembler or other languages?