{"id":172,"date":"2004-04-07T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T11:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2004-04-07T11:16:10","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T11:16:10","slug":"the_ibm_system360_revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"The IBM System\/360 Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/ibms360_04072004\/s360.jpg\"><br \/>\nSpeaking of Entrepreneurs, IBM launched System\/360 on April 7, 1964. Many consider it the biggest business gamble of all time. At the height of IBM&#8217;s success, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. bet the company&#8217;s future on a new compatible family of computer systems that would help revolutionize modern organizations. <a href=\"\">Get a behind-the-scenes view of the tough decisions<\/a> made by some of the people who made them, and learn how the System\/360 helped transform the government, science and commercial landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of Entrepreneurs, IBM launched System\/360 on April 7, 1964. Many consider it the biggest business gamble of all time. At the height of IBM&#8217;s success, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. bet the company&#8217;s future on a new compatible family of computer systems that would help revolutionize modern organizations. Get a behind-the-scenes view of the tough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}