 On this day in 1985, U.S. President Ronald Reagan bestowed the first National Medal of Technology and Innovation upon three IBMers, Fred Brooks, Eric Block, and Bob Owens. The award has since become the preeminent recognition in the country for significant contributions to society through technology. All three co-won the medal for their contributions to the development of the hardware, architecture, and systems engineering behind IBM's System 360, which revolutionized the data processing industry. The System 360 was the first family of computers designed with both commercial and scientific use cases in mind, allowing customers to expand their systems as their needs grew, which was a first in the industry at the time. Mainframe systems have come to underpin much of the modern economy, securely managing transactions for the world's largest banks, bookings for the world's biggest airlines, and data for just about every industry. IBM's research and development into mainframe systems has continued to this day, up through Z16, the latest iteration of IBM's Z platform that brought AI and cyber resiliency to the hybrid cloud. None of that would have been possible without their earliest pioneers on System 360. Keep checking back for more moments in IBM history.