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."

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Another museum with IBM machines

[Mitchua]

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