How much do you want it to be?
Flashback to the 1970s, when companies that can't afford a mainframe send their computing jobs to a service bureau like the one that employs this pilot fish.
"We were a scientific bureau in the UK running Control Data hardware," says fish. "One of our customers, an economics think tank, were able to get a copy of the government's macroeconomic model, so they could also attempt to predict what the economy would do.
"It was written in Fortran for a Univac 1108 -- every manufacturer had its own version of Fortran -- but once we got rid of the compilation errors, we ran it with the test data provided.
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