A kinda sensationalized account, but well....
There are specialist COBOL folk still around today, the COBOL Cowboys. See https://cobolcowboys.com/
More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL_Cowboys
Used for many mission-critical apps, but did it ever control or do something for Ham radio?
GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL) is a free, modern COBOL compiler available for Linux, and I suspect for others too. https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/
The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore - COBOL
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