There's also an article in today's Durham (NC) Herald-Sun about the IBM/360 and the role of Fred Brooks, Jr., who is also credited with founding the Computer Science dept. at UNC-Chapel Hill.
The article is at:
http://www.heraldsun.com/business/21-467479.html
Enjoy!
Alex K.
The Calculator Museum Web Page
http://www.calcmuseum.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Krten <root_at_parse.com>
Sent: Apr 7, 2004 10:07 AM
To: cctech_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: IBM 360 turns 40 today
Read an article in the local paper, Ottawa Citizen, about the
IBM 360 turning 40 today. Interesting read, they claim that
in today's dollars, the total effort cost something like
$30 BILLION :-)
The picture in the paper was interesting, because the front panel
is the exact same one that I have in the basement...
Cheers,
-RK
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Received on Wed Apr 07 2004 - 11:53:08 BST