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Fifty years on, mainframer remembers 'a fantastic time to be an engineer'

2014-04-04 20:56:49| InfoWorld: Top News

The make-or-break project kept engineers just out of college working around the clock hunting down bugs. The product had so much buzz that speculators bought up units to resell later for a profit. The company invested so much in development that its future was riding on success. This wasn't a phone or an app or even a new crypto-payments platform. It was 1964, and IBM was about to launch the System/360 mainframe.

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