Home›Articles›How a throwaway experiment became a 33-year systemArticleHow a throwaway experiment became a 33-year systemArticlesConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)ConnectionsArticle OnMichigan Terminal System, Systems Well-attested SourcesWikipedia: Michigan Terminal SystemOriginsQuote, OriginsThis earliest incarnation of MTS was intended as a throw-away system used to gain experience with the new IBM S/360 hardware and which would be discarded when IBM's TSS/360 operating system became available.View the SourceAtlas Article Vocabularytier 1AtlasComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.