I remember when I was 8 years old, my dad took me to the IBM pavillion at the 65 NY worlds Fair. He was so excited to be there, and kept telling me “This is the future, this company will change the world.”
I, of course, didn’t get it. I wanted to see Small world again.
I started working for IBM in 1965, after 3 years in the Army, and started working on the low-end IBM/360 models 30 and 40 the following year. In fact, the 360 series absolutely DID change the world, because thousands of companies that had never before considered computer systems could afford them. Computers transformed many of these companies, and the management systems these early adopters wrote for their own companies became the basis for a gigantic industry that continues today.