IBM Engineers

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Apr 8 15:33:37 2004

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Gene Ehrich wrote:

> At 01:51 PM 4/8/2004, you wrote:
> >One of the more interesting tidbits I learned last night was that IBM
> >didn't get any orders for the S/360 until almost 3 months after the
> >announcement.
>
> I worked for IBM at the time and if they did not get orders immediately it
> is because they were not yet accepting orders. Once the window was opened
> they got over two years of production ordered on the first day

I'm quoting Fred Brooks, Gene. You can take it up with him if you think
his memory is failing him ;)

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