Re: 7 April 1964: Happy Birthday, IBM System/360

[Kevin McAleavey <kevinmca () nsclean com>]

 No mention of Hollerith paper cuts or the fabled PL/1 (not to be confused with the later PL/10) language. Dang, I'm 
gettin' old!    :)

At 12:44 AM 4/7/06, you wrote:
> Yeah, I've done S/360/370 assembler on punchcards. So?  :-)
>
> Text via Wikipedia.
>
> [snip]
>
> The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a mainframe computer system family announced by International Business Machines on April 
> 7, 1964. It was the first family of computers making a clear distinction between architecture and implementation. The 
> chief architect of the S/360 was Gene Amdahl.
>
> The S/360 was the most expensive CPU project in history. (The most expensive project of the 1960s was the Apollo 
> program for moon exploration. IBM's System/360 was the second most expensive. S/360 machines were also heavily used in 
> the Apollo project.) Fortune Magazine at the time referred to the project as IBM's "$5 billion gamble," and they were 
> right. IBM absolutely bet the company on the System/360. (US$5 billion in 1964 dollars translates to about $30 billion 
> in 2005 dollars.) The bet paid off.
>
> [snip]
>
> http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/04/7-april-1964-happy-birthday-ibm.html
>
> - ferg
>
>
> --
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> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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