http://www.righto.com/2019/04/iconic-consoles-of-ibm-system360.html
'The IBM System/360 was a groundbreaking family of mainframe computers
announced on April 7, 1964. Designing the System/360 was an extremely
risky "bet-the-company" project for IBM, costing over $5 billion.
Although the project ran into severe problems, especially with the
software, it was a huge success, one of the top three business
accomplishments of all time. System/360 set the direction of the
computer industry for decades and popularized features such as the byte,
32-bit words, microcode, and standardized interfaces. The S/360
architecture was so successful that it is still supported by IBM's
latest z/Architecture mainframes, 55 years later.'
Via Hank G and Kam-Yung Soh.
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