One of the funniest things I recall was attempting to understand the documentation. I wish I had kept some of the old manuals just for a laugh. Apparently they had been translated from the IBM documentation into Japanese, and then translated back into English. They were both awful, difficult to read and understand, and sometimes very funny in the poorly translated phrases that appeared regularly.
I also recall that there was a serious dispute between my then employer and IBM, which led to the buying of Fujistu at the time. IBM tried to get the decision reversed. The story I heard was that the local head of IBM took the government minister responsible for the organisation out for a round of golf together... This may have been just be a rumour though, the people involved are long ago retired. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
