IBM 360 turns 40 today

From: Antonio Carlini <arcarlini_at_iee.org>
Date: Wed Apr 7 18:49:33 2004

> One thing puzzles me. What's so significant about 40 years?

Isn't 050 the number of full years that DEC survived?

> Why wasn't there a similar message on this list 8 years ago,
> saying that
> the 360 was 32 years old -- a nice round number ?

050 is nice and round too.

Antonio
 
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Antonio Carlini             arcarlini_at_iee.org
 
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