IBM 360 Turns 40

[TRexx]

Just 40 years ago today, April 7, 1964, IBM announced the 360 line of mainframe computers.

Here are a few related links

www.esj.com/enterprise/ar...ialsID=899

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ar...5VUUQ1.DTL

www.guruge.com/pages/5/index.htm

 

[A Murricun]

Quote:April 7, 1964, IBM announced the 360

Yes, but when did they actually deliver?

[TRexx]

Quote:Yes, but when did they actually deliver?

About a year later.

According to "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems", by Emerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson and John H. Palmer, the first 360 shipped, a Model 40, went to "Globe Exploration Company" in April 1965.

[A Murricun]

Quote:About a year later.

Yean, I guess that's about it.

By mid-1966, we were amusing ourselves by inventing new assembler mnemonics (always pronounced "new-monics")

Maybe some other flatulence-prone superannuates remember this game.  Some examples:

BH -  branch and hang
BTO - branch to operator
HCM - halt and clear memory
HCF - halt and catch fire

Those were the days.

[TRexx]

My favorites were

RPM -- Read Programmer's Mind
DWIM -- Do What I Mean

[The Gorn]

I don't have a new-monic for that one.

[A Murricun]

SASD

Also DASD - destroy and scramble data

[Jeremy Singer]

Branch and Spill Coffee.

So named because certain commands would raise the cover for the removeable DASD, where the operator had put his coffee cup.

[expat]

CVRN -- convert to Roman Numerals
JPR -- jam printer
EPI -- execute programmer immediate

[RMPCP]

Remember the old minicomputer architectures that had autoincrement and autodecrement addressing modes? Well now there's a new machine with autoexcrement mode - when the address register gets FFFFull, the machine takes a dump.

[Randy Given]

[David Cressey]

TOF - Turn Off Fan

[John Masterson]

David,

You should post now and then. It would help raise the average level of discourse here on OpenIT!

-- JM

[David Cressey]

Well, I bailed out early this year.  The main thing that chased me out was the level of political discourse.  And I figured it would just get worse.

Now that the elections are over,  and "the tribe has spoken", I figured it might be safe to come back.

However,  I have to warn people.  I'm one of the people who got shoved out of IT over the last few years.  So if you're hell bent on competing with RR in terms of "who is successfull", then maybe you don't want me back.  I'll just lower the average!

[Randy Given]

You're a valuable asset and have been missed. I have brought the average down, too, so I guess we're all brethren.