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Happy 50th Birthday, System/360

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IBM’s $5bn gamble: revolutionary computer turns 50 Fifty years ago today IBM unveiled the first mainframe computer, capable of powering everything from banks to governments. It was so expensive to design that failure would have destroyed the company. Luckily, the System/360 sold in the thousands, and revolutionised computing into the bargain By Matthew Sparkes 8:00AM […]

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