Do you know your mainframe lingo?

Sep 15, 2023

Adaptigent enables companies to connect disparate systems and modernize legacy platforms for better business outcomes.

Did your computer journey start with dial-up and dot matrix? Perhaps you cut your teeth coding COBOL, or maybe you dream in Rust. Whatever your beginning, both you and technology changed along the way. If you’re not modernizing your mainframe and your skills, you’re depreciating. Test your noggin and see if you’re keeping up.

1. “Big Iron” is another term for:

 
 
 
 

2. What was the first personal computer storage medium?

 
 
 
 

3. What was a first with the Moonshot servers?

 
 
 
 

4. What does ENIAC stand for?

 
 
 
 

5.  Why do we call software defects “bugs”?

 
 
 
 

6. True or false: Perfect code exists.

 
 

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