Apr 7: IBM (Westchester, NY) announces mainstream computer family named IBM System/360 (a mainframe genre computer).
A client–upgradeable series and one of the most successful computers in history. Depending on model, it required space ranging from a small closet to a super–huge room…
(In Mar 2008, IBM introduces Mainframe System Z10 at $1,000,000 per unit… estimated total IBM mainframe sales in 2007: $3 billion out of a total of $100 billion IBM sales).
Computer Science emerges into mainstream 1960s onward…Silicon Valley, CA (south and contiguous to San Francisco) has been the scientific nexus.