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Today, the System/360 more closely resembles something out of an early Star Trek episode than one of the most important business innovations of all time.
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IBM’s original System/360 machine could perform a million instructions per second.
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About 20 members of the original System/360 team gathered for a photo op at the end of the anniversary party Wednesday evening in Mountain View, California.
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Bob Evans and Fred Brooks, the two leaders of the System/360 project, celebrate the birth of the mainframe computer at its 40th-anniversary party Wednesday evening.
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The IBM System/360 turned 40 years old Wednesday. The occasion was celebrated with a party at the Computer History Museum.
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A reference sheet for the System/360 was four dense pages of computerese. View a PDF of the entire http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/07312000/stag-komodo.wired.com/news/images/full/IBM.pdf
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System/360 was the world’s first mainframe, and its introduction opened the door to a new era of computing.
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The Computer History Museum presented the IBM System/360 team with a birthday cake complete with an edible replica of an original promotional photograph for the revolutionary mainframe.
