It’s 1985, and this programmer pilot fish is asked to work on a pioneering banking software project — one that uses PCs.

“The bank’s own staff was highly skeptical about the ability of networked microcomputers to do the job of the bank’s old mainframe system,” says fish. “To appease their apprehensions about the system’s ability to produce reports in a timely manner, we configured high-speed line printers onto a network of BTOS workstations.”

Fish’s job is writing the program to generate customers’ monthly statements — but he has to do it with very insufficient information.

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