I remember in 1990 IBM sponsored a small 370 for our university. I fiddled weeks to get curly braces to work correctly. We were all used to work with Sun workstations or at most VAXen at the time. It was unbelievable how complicated this was in the IBM world. They were still living in the world of full-time machine operators. My colleagues were glad I did it, my professor who had not programmed for years and was moving in higher spheres was not impressed I had spent so much time on it when he learned about it later.
