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The mainframe turns 50: Why the IBM System/360 launch was the dawn of enterprise IT
2014-04-04 16:59:49| InfoWorld: Top News
In many ways, the modern computer era began in the New Englander Motor Hotel in Greenwich, Conn. It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met in secret to figure out how to build the next-generation IBM computer.A new design was sorely needed. IBM already sold a number of successful though entirely separate computer lines, but they were becoming increasingly difficult to maintain and update.
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