The Mainframe turns 50 

Charles Branscomb, IBM 1401 program manager, on the computing innovation that helped send men to the moon and still processes nearly all the world's bank transactions:

“We weren’t interested in building an accounting machine. We wanted to take people to a whole new world…We have an image here of a fairly simple control panel; they looked like a bunch of spaghetti, but this is how you controlled the machine in those days.”

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