[Whispering Smith]

As I remember, forty years ago it was the 1401. Thirty five years ago was the 1410. Thirty years ago the 365 was going and the 370 was coming.

[syriacus]

In 1969 we had
360/30s and 360/40s
Lots of IBM utility programs
Keypunched cards
Disk, drum and tape storage
Sweaters handy, to put on when we went into the computer rooms.

[Bobibutu]

Actually - it's System 360 - I was at the announcement celebration 40 years ago in Tulsa OK.

We used them extensivly in and around Viet Nam.

360/30 was the replacement for the 1401 and 1410.

We had several 360/65s that were integrated together in NKP Thailand.

360/50s all over the place - a real workhorse housed in huge A/C buildings.

Former IBM Field Engineer
s/n 224795

[StopGlobalWhining]

As I remember, forty years ago it was the 1401. Thirty five years ago was the 1410. Thirty years ago the 365 was going and the 370 was coming.

The IBM System/360 computer series was announced in 1964. I joined the Company in 1965. The first S/370 was the IBM 145 in name only, introduced in 1972. The first real 370 was the 148 in 1973.

I worked primarily with large MVT mainframes (S/360-65 and S/360-75) until 1974 or '75 when the 370/168 grabbed a big share of the market, followed by the 3030, and later the 3090, folowed by the ES/9000.

The air went out of the sails of the water-cooled S/390 series in February 1990 when IBM introduced the RS/6000 AIX systems line. A system I could carry to my car could beat a big water-cooled mainframe with 6 Vector Facilities on a numerically intense floating point job. Today in IBM, the follow on to the RS/6000 is the pSeries p690, which borrowed and extended the ESA LPAR concept.

[pt17]

As I remember, forty years ago it was the 1401. Thirty five years ago was the 1410. Thirty years ago the 365 was going and the 370 was coming

My own remembrances were, in computer room chronology: 650, RCA 501, 1401, RCA Spectra 70, 1410, 360, 370. It was into minis and PCs after that. It's funny how some PC server rooms have grown up to look like the mainframe rooms of old, complete with raised floor, viewing windows, UPS, frigid air and all.