IBM System/370 turns 50 years old

Nigel Johnson nw.johnson at ieee.org
Tue Jun 30 18:24:14 CDT 2020


I remember the day!  I was in school then, and had  an older friend who 
worked at IBM.  He had previously told me that they had bought the 
entire (416)360 exchange for their offices, and I asked him if they were 
all going to change to 370 now!

cheers,

Nigel



Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU
Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept!
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On 30/06/2020 16:44, Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote:
> Happy birthday to the 370! Looks like it was released to the press on 30
> June 1970.
>
> https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PR370.html
>
> Kyle


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