In the book of corporate folklore, former IBM CEO Thomas Watson Jr. deserves a special spot. Specifically, the massive gamble he took in 1964 to introduce the System/360, which had the potential ...

The IBM System 360 led the computer revolution. "Mad Men" designers spent two days at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., sketching the real thing to get it exactly right. What's ...

IBM, IBM System / 360 Installation Manual - Physical Planning. E. W. Pugh, L. R. Johnson and J. H. Palmer, IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991. Location Currently not on view ...

I started on an IBM 1620. If you planned to do a multiply, you had to preload the multiplication tables from a punch card deck. Interesting note- the IBM System/360 operating system was hailed as ...

System/360 Model 91 in the late 1960s. We're seeing industry pundits from all quarters take the time to congratulate or castigate IBM for being able to sell variations of the System/360 for 50 years.

The System/360 and its successor System/370 continued to sell well into the 1970s, as punch cards were slowly replaced by IBM 3270 terminals, known as green screens. Green screens changed the way ...

IT can trace its roots back to arguably the most important computer introduction made 52 years ago today. April 7, 1964 was the day IBM introduced its System/360, the first true mainframe for the ...

The IBM System/360 mainframe was the darling and the workhorse of its day. McKnight/AP 1964: IBM unveils the System/360 line of mainframe computers. It was a daring innovation that transformed ...

It's an IBM System/360 (see video above), and this year, we celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The 360 was actually a whole family of machines, the first line of general purpose computers that ...

1 A Look at Mainframe History as IBM System/360 Turns 50, COBOL Turns 55. by Darryl K. Taft. 2 1956: The Beginnings of a Mainframe. Before the advent of the mainframe, IBM developed the 350 RAMAC.

The System/360 and its successor System/370 continued to sell well into the 1970s, as punch cards were slowly replaced by IBM 3270 terminals, known as green screens. Green screens changed the way ...