Re: 45th anniversary of the mainframe today!

2009-04-07 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 10:48:00 -0500 Dave Jones said: >Slightly off topic.three things happened in April 1964 to make it a >rather remarkable month, imho: > >1) IBM introduced the System/360, as Jim has reminded us. >2) Ford introduced the Ford Mustang (April 17) >and >3) Stanley Kubrick had lunch

Re: 45th anniversary of the mainframe today!

2009-04-07 Thread Dave Jones
Slightly off topic.three things happened in April 1964 to make it a rather remarkable month, imho: 1) IBM introduced the System/360, as Jim has reminded us. 2) Ford introduced the Ford Mustang (April 17) and 3) Stanley Kubrick had lunch with Arthur C. Clarke at Tavern on the Green in NYC to

Re: 45th anniversary of the mainframe today!

2009-04-07 Thread Mark Pace
And there was much rejoicing! On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Jim Elliott wrote: > Today, April 7th is the 45 anniversary of the announcement of > System 360. In celebration, I have updated my History of the > Mainframe presentation and posted it on my web site on the > events page. > > http://i