In 1964, IBM risked its entire corporate empire on the System/360, a chaotic gamble to make all of its future machines compatible with the same software — and the architecture proved so robust that modern enterprise mainframes today are still running sections of binary code written more than sixty years ago – Make Tech Easier
By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team Publication Date: 2026-06-02 05:26:00 On the morning of April 7, 1964, in a coordinated…