posted by
Dopefish
on Tuesday April 08 2014, @11:28AM
from the the-real-international-business-machines dept.
from the the-real-international-business-machines dept.
Yes, our friends beat us to it already but it still it worth noting that today is the 50th anniversary of the initial release of the IBM System/360 series of mainframes, perhaps the a revolution in computer technology only surpassed by the PC revolution of the 1980's. El Reg has a fantastic article commemorating the event.
But there is more! In 2004, the Computer History Museum hosted a talk featuring, among others, Fred Brooks, one of the leads of the IBM 360 development team and the author of The Mythical Man Month . The talk is nearly two hours long but well worth watching. Despite its age, nearly everything said is still relevant today.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by lhsi on Tuesday April 08 2014, @01:36PM
If I watch the talk on two monitors I'll be able to finish watching it in half the time, right?
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Tuesday April 08 2014, @01:58PM
Gee, I hope so, I have a 3-monitor setup.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Bartman12345 on Tuesday April 08 2014, @02:00PM
Yes, but if you keep adding monitors, eventually you will reach a point where it starts to take longer.
(Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 08 2014, @02:48PM
Send them my burning love! [wikimedia.org]
(Score: 3, Informative) by LaminatorX on Tuesday April 08 2014, @03:35PM
Coincidentally apropos, this was also the date in 1959 when Grace Hopper convened the working group that led to COBOL.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Bartman12345 on Tuesday April 08 2014, @04:04PM
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. COBOLBDAY.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DISPLAY 'Happy Birthday COBOL.'.
STOP RUN.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by randmcnatt on Tuesday April 08 2014, @03:45PM
I was introduced to programming on a 360 back in 1967 or 1968 -- I still have the Cobol and assembler manuals. I filled out some coding sheets, gave them to my dad, and he brought home some cute printouts, green and white IIRC. Now I almost wish I hadn't discovered girls and photography the same year.
The Wright brothers were not the first to fly: they were the first to land.
(Score: 2) by combatserver on Tuesday April 08 2014, @09:02PM
Hello.
You don't know me, but I'm your son...and I have the photos to prove it.
I hope I can change this later...
(Score: 2) by randmcnatt on Wednesday April 09 2014, @01:58AM
The Wright brothers were not the first to fly: they were the first to land.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by tomp on Tuesday April 08 2014, @04:17PM
I wouldn't have known slashdot had already posted this if you didn't tell me. I hope you're not letting that site limit what you're showing us.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by joshuajon on Tuesday April 08 2014, @07:01PM
Agreed. That added nothing to the story. Almost like somebody is suffering from an inferiority complex.