I'd believe it's real. In 2016 I was at a company trying to migrate off an old IBM mainframe and green screens. It wasn't like an airline with complex or critical code; it was just a barely functional ERP for a warehouse. Source control was the furthest thing from their minds. Some companies and IT departments are very reluctant to change, regardless of how much time and money it save.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The kind of place where "backups" means playing Russian Roulette with one set of old ass tapes, if you're lucky.

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it was all tapes. We only had to use them once when I worked there: after finding out the UPS connected to the mainframe was a dud. And then it really was roulette because the first two tapes were unreadable, so we ended up with three week old data.