Happy Birthday to the IBM Mainframe

I am older than the mainframe... I turned 58 on April 3rd, and the IBM mainframe officially celebrates its 57th birthday today, April 7th.

The IBM 360 was launched on April 7, 1964 and the world of enterprise computing has never been the same.

Here are a few links and articles to check out as we celebrate the ongoing vitality of mainframe computing:

• IBM Archives: System/360 Announcement
• Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM
• How Mainframes Have Changed Over the Years
• Wikipedia: IBM System/360 mainframe line
• 9 Mainframe Statistics that may Surprise You

So, all of you mainframe users out there, today is indeed a day to celebrate... another year has gone by, and mainframes are still here... running the world!