Story: The forgotten story behind IBM's 'first mainframe'

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Often, in an industry so full of hype where all of us are pressured to have the latest and greatest products, we lose sight of the fact that many of the ideas being implemented in microprocessor-based systems go back much further. It pleases me to see credit given to some of the original developers and thinkers. I found this to be a well written piece on computing history. How often do people upgrade when what they are currently using can still do the job?

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