Cultural differences

[gorkabear]

These days I'm working with a team of 4 programmers in Lisbon, plus a trainee here in Barcelona. While this is quite cool because I am, indeed, learning some Portuguese, it's the second time in my life I'm "directing" people

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[pbehr]

I worked for IBM in the 1960's (yes, I'm that old LOL ) and ended up with a World Trade assignment in Paris. It was fascinating to see cultural differences in operation.

Fast forward forty years, I´m now spending significant time in Spain with my new partner. Cultural differences are still fascinating and fun.

Hope you don´t mind my adding you as a "friend".

Let me know if you do. :-)

[gorkabear]

Not at all... A real pleasure! Welcome!

[gorkabear]

Welcome!
You'll be glad to know that mainframes are still alive and well :)
We must be in version 9 of DB2 and other modern CICS incarnations, but seriously, I lose track of that

[pbehr]

I started before mainframes. On the 1401, there was NO operating system. Each program was loaded in on its own. Only one ran at a time. The programs were written in near machine language. A "big" 1401 (about the size of a package of 8 refrigerators) had 16,000 bytes of memory. We did have fun though. LOL

[gorkabear]

OMG
If you knew how we work now...
BTW, today we looped a transaction, the operators didn't notice and the system had to be IPL'ed :)