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SHARE Inc. is a volunteer-run user group for IBM mainframe computers that was founded in 1955 by Los Angeles-area IBM 701 users. It evolved into a forum for exchanging technical information about programming languages, operating systems, database systems, and user experiences for enterprise users of small, medium, and large-scale IBM computers such as IBM S/360, IBM S/370, zSeries, pSeries, and xSeries. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...
1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The IBM 701, known as the Defense Calculator while in development, was announced to the public on April 29, 1952, and was IBM’s first commercial scientific computer. ...
System/360 Model 65 operators console, with register value lamps and toggle switches (middle of picture) and emergency pull switch (upper right). ...
IBM logo The IBM System/370 (often: S/370) was a model range of IBM mainframes announced on June 30, 1970 as the successors to the System/360 family. ...
Since December, 2001, IBM designates all its mainframes with the name eServer zSeries, with the e depicted in IBMs well-known red trademarked symbol. ...
The IBM pSeries, formerly called RS/6000 (for RISC System/6000), is IBMs current RISC/UNIX-based workstation computer line. ...
The IBM xSeries computers form a sub-brand of International Business Machines (IBM)s eServer brand servers (the other eServer sub-brands having the names iSeries, pSeries, and zSeries). ...
A major resource of SHARE from the beginning was the SHARE library. Originally, IBM's operating systems were distributed in source form and it was common for systems programmers to make local modifications and to exchange them with other users. The SHARE library and the process of distributed development it fostered was one of the major origins of open source software.[1] Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...
SHARE was later incorporated as a non-profit corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. The organization produces a newsletter and conducts two major educational meetings per year. Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area City 606. ...
Today, SHARE's membership of 20,000 represents some 2,300 enterprise IBM customers [2].
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