<s>
The	O
IBM	O
7040	O
was	O
a	O
historic	O
but	O
short-lived	O
model	O
of	O
transistor	B-Device
computer	I-Device
built	O
in	O
the	O
1960s	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
later	O
member	O
of	O
the	O
IBM	O
700/7000	O
series	O
of	O
scientific	O
computers	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
a	O
scaled-down	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
IBM	B-Device
7090	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
number	O
of	O
IBM	O
7040	O
and	O
7044	O
computers	O
were	O
shipped	O
,	O
but	O
it	O
was	O
eventually	O
made	O
obsolete	O
by	O
the	O
IBM	B-Application
System/360	I-Application
family	O
,	O
announced	O
in	O
1964	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
schedule	O
delays	O
caused	O
by	O
IBM	O
's	O
multiple	O
incompatible	O
architectures	O
provided	O
motivation	O
for	O
the	O
unified	O
System/360	B-Application
family	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
team	O
of	O
students	O
was	O
frustrated	O
with	O
the	O
slow	O
performance	O
of	O
the	O
Fortran	B-Application
compiler	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
summer	O
of	O
1965	O
they	O
wrote	O
the	O
WATFOR	B-Language
compiler	O
for	O
their	O
7040	O
,	O
which	O
became	O
popular	O
with	O
many	O
newly	O
formed	O
computer	O
science	O
departments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
IBM	O
used	O
similar	O
numbers	O
for	O
a	O
model	O
of	O
its	O
eServer	O
pSeries	O
690	O
RS/6000	B-Device
architecture	O
much	O
later	O
.	O
</s>
