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I worked at Kodak in Financial Information Systems, and 1989 was spent getting ready to convert all of the batch jobs from 13 periods with 28 cycles to monthly.

Lots of figuring out when to run things… I had that exact poster up on my wall in my cube that’s shown in the article.

Good times, good times.



I would imagine that it was very sifficult to use a non-standard calendar with the pc-based commodity software that was becoming ubiquitous in the mid/pate eighties. Was that part of the reason to migrate back to the Gregorian calendar?


What I worked on was all bespoke in-house developed software written in PL/1


In that one image, the extra month sure looks like the month of "SQL". Which would be a special kind of hell.




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