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IBM's Mainframe Dinosaur Turns 40

Posted by simoniker on from the not-so-purple dept.

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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  1. haappy Biirthday Tooo you! by OtakuHawk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yay! *Pops corks*

  2. bananas haven't gotten any in 10,000 years! by alw53 · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    From an article on the same page, apparently
    bananas haven't had sex in 10,000 years and
    are dangerously monocultured as a result.