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IBM's Mainframe Dinosaur Turns 40
theodp writes "According to an SFGate.com article, PCs were supposed to kill off the mainframe, but Big Blue's big boxes are still crunching numbers, posting sales of $4.2 billion in 2003. First unveiled on April 7, 1964, the IBM mainframe computer celebrates its 40th birthday this week with a sold-out party at the Computer History Museum." The SFGate article also reveals: "Doug Balog, an IBM vice president, noted that 70 percent of the world's data are still housed in mainframe computers."
Everyone here knows it too. Before they started to use lunix everyone who's been around computers long enough knows that they suck. Their software is still crappy today.
making things hard is 3asy
Sheesh, review your Latin, dumbfuck.
-um is the singular nominative for a neuter second declension noun, and -a is the plural.
One datum, many data.
the other 30% of the many datum are stored in j0 m0mma's double-fised col0n.
some Of you have Of challenges that suffering *BSD by simple fucking
Linux is pathetic compared to good old CMS.
I know another museum that houses IBM machines: the U.S. Holocaust Museum. I think it's unfair that a giant corporation is allowed to profit from the money and the expertise they gained supporting the Nazi regime (as well as the Allied forces) in the 1940's. I know the IBM of today is far removed from the IBM of then, but it pains me that they have never been held responsible, even financially.
An interesting read: IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation