Undeterred, IBM is expected to celebrate the anniversary with the launch of a new z890 family of mainframes, which have a technology infrastructure similar to the high-end z990. IBM was unavailable for comment on this article (see IBM Unveils Mid-Sized Mainframe).
Things have certainly moved on a bit since April 7, 1964, when Cant Buy Me Love topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, and Lyndon B.Johnson was in the Oval Office.
Back then, IBM Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. described the launch of the System/360 as the most important product announcement in the company's history.
At a press conference at the company's Poughkeepsie, N.Y., site some four decades ago, Watson said, "System/360 represents a sharp departure from concepts of the past in designing and building computers... This is the beginning of a new generation, not only of computers, but of their application in business, science, and government."
He wasnt far wrong, was he?
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