This June IBM celebrates the 100th anniversary of its incorporation. It was founded in 1911 as the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation following a merger of the Computer Scale Company of America and the International Time Recording Company with the Tabulating Machine Company and renamed as International Business Machines 23 years later. Among IBM's many groundbreaking projects, it seems appropriate to focus on the achievements of the 7030-System/360 initiatives. What has IBM ever done for us? Well, in computing terms, quite a lot. First up is the eight-bit byte. Instruction pipelining is another neat technique held over from IBM's Stretch project. Next was out of order execution, speculative execution, distributed computing and intelligent channel I/O.