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05 View Artifact Detail In 1960, IBM’s Gene Amdahl was named manager of architecture for their new System/360 family of mainframe computers. Amdahl’s challenge was to design a family of computers that would support a range of speeds and peripherals yet run the same software. The System/360, announced in April of 196...

“A broadcaster should be encouraged to be experimental.” — Lorenzo Milam Lorenzo Milam died July 19 in Pueblo Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico. He was 86. He was a leader in disability rights, publishing and half a dozen other pursuits. But in community radio, Lorenzo was a legend in his own time. He inspired hundreds of p...