IBM 360 turns 40 today

From: Gene Ehrich <gehrich_at_tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Wed Apr 7 16:45:30 2004

At 10:07 AM 4/7/2004, you wrote:
>Read an article in the local paper, Ottawa Citizen, about the
>IBM 360 turning 40 today.

I remember it well. Went to work in Poughkeepsie (operations then
industrial engineering) in 1964. We were running 360 emulation on an IBM
7030 computer (Stretch)

>Interesting read, they claim that
>in today's dollars, the total effort cost something like
>$30 BILLION :-)

They sure weren't paying us much at that time.



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Gene Ehrich
gehrich_at_tampabay.rr.com
Received on Wed Apr 07 2004 - 16:45:30 BST