When in danger or in doubt,
Run in circles, scream and shout.

p. 101. Herman Wouk: THE CAINE MUTINY. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc. 1951. (p. 120 of the 1954 Doubleday pb ed.)

Heinlein lifted a lot of things. And it seems to be even older than that if google can be trusted

Seriously, this is IT 101. I am used to having drills every 6 months.

Would this amount to a poll tax?

Well, Economics already is doing it. But without ethical guidelines.

If you are truly to experiment, what is the control group? Without a control is this really Science?

Not unlike Economics, but with ethical guidelines.

1) Bogus, increases in hardware capabilities has always been gobbled up by bloated software.
2) Yeah..... right. The first impulse will be to slap on a shiney new GUI. And the monkeys hired to code it will probably use bubble sorts or worse code.
3) Emulators
4) How about 'growing your own'? Remember, the hard part is not learning to program, that can be done in a couple of years. The hard part is understanding the business rules.
5) If you use an emulator you have plenty of hardware space, though you might have to write your own paging routines to take advantage of larger address spaces. But even in the 60's and early 70's there were mini-computers with 32 bit words, such as the PDP6 and PDP10

The software is the easy part. Figuring out how to replace 40+ years of business knowledge stored in the older software is the hard part. ANd why most upgrades fail in terms of massive cost over runs, damage to business processes, and slipped schedules.

I guess that would also be a reason.

You obviously have no idea what the Water Cycle is.

"Tech is hard"

Nah. Women gravitate toward Biology, Botany, Medicine, Chemistry, and other fields that are intrinsically non-linear and cannot be easily constrained. Men in Engineering and Physical Sciences which are easy to constrain and make linear. EEs for example spend a fair amount of effort ensuring that their designs have linear responses. In the fields I just mentioned you do not have that luxury.

Yes. The dynamic binding of operations in SNOBOL was fun, in a funny sort of way. JCL however, despite its inverted logic, is not a programming language in the strict sense of the word.

it doesn't like it ;)

There are several sites out there I use to research salaries such as glassdoor, salary.com, and payscale.com. They can give you a salary range for the company and job you are looking at. Are there any others out there you consider to be good?

Also, personally, I do not 'jump' unless there is at least a 10 pct pay increase. The stress of a new job does not make it worth it for me.

Moderated 'troll'. Either my humor is too subtle or it was a really bad joke.