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Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM

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169 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 08 Apr 25 07:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
1. ChicagoDave ◴[08 Apr 25 15:19 UTC] No.43622837[source]▶
My sister worked at IBM and one of my favorite stories is when Lotus tried to pressure IBM to spend millions on licensing, a few engineers went off and built their own spreadsheet application and IBM told Lotus to piss off.