Before IBM was synonymous with personal computers ... so price comparison is hard. But a very large System/360 Model 195 was quite fast, could multiprocess, and had a whopping 4 MB of memory.

It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met ... Before the System/360 introduction, manufacturers built each new computer model from scratch. Sometimes machines were even ...

By 1966, IBM was selling a thousand systems a month, at $2.5 to $3 million ($20 million today ... Collins has written that the System/360, along with Ford's Model T and the Boeing 707 jet ...

Above: The operator’s console on the IBM’s System/360 Model 65. Above: A console for the System/360 Model 30. If you want to impress your boss, VB Daily has you covered. We give you the inside ...

In the book of corporate folklore, former IBM CEO Thomas ... 1964 to introduce the System/360, which had the potential to undermine his own company's entire business model. Today on the show ...

Considered the first modern mainframe, the IBM 360 launched ... This model scales up to 9,000 MIPS on 32 processors—twice the number of processors and almost three times the system capacity ...

And the flagship of the mainframe world was the IBM System/360. For a whole generation that grew up in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a 360 was probably what you thought of when someone said ...

Once introduced, the System/360 set IBM on a path to dominate the computer industry for the following 20 years. The System/360 Model 75 processed data for the first lunar landing 240,000 miles ...

It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met ... Before the System/360 introduction, manufacturers built each new computer model from scratch. Sometimes machines were even ...