Making History

It was 44 years ago this week that IBM introduced the S/360 Computer. Wikipedia tells part of the story... as does Beagle-ears and there's the official word from IBM.

Whichever way you look at the announcement it changed the face of computing. For the first time there was a computer that created a family of computers that would allow upgrades from one system to another without re-writing the software.

Over the early years of his career the Gorse Fox has worked with the following members and variations of this family:

S/360-50
S/360-65
S/370-135
S/370-145
S/370-148
S/370-158
S/370-168 (which was his favourite)
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and in the last 25 years has been a user of so many variations that he cannot recall them.
He only wishes he could remember which box holds his old S/360 POP (Principle of Operation).