The most popular System / 360 model 40 can be borrowed from $ 9,000 (about 3.2 million yen) to $ 17,000 (about 6.10 million yen) a month, and by 1972 IBM will cost $ 1 billion for the model 40 ...

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 ...

1 A Look at Mainframe History as IBM System/360 Turns 50, COBOL Turns 55. by Darryl K. Taft. ... IBM developed the 350 RAMAC. Built in 1956, it used a stack of fifty 24-inch disks as memory, ...

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.

IBM made a big bet in when it released the System/360 family of mainframes in 1964. They're not exactly IBM's biggest hit today, but they did help computing move forward, toward interoperability.

The internals were based somewhat on the IBM System/360’s technology. Interestingly, ... It was developed at IBM Hursley in the UK and used magnetic core memory.

The internals were based somewhat on the IBM System/360’s technology. Interestingly, ... It was developed at IBM Hursley in the UK and used magnetic core memory.

IBM’s president at the time, Tom Watson, Jr., killed off other IBM computer lines and put the company’s full force behind the System/360. IBM’s revenue swelled to $8.3 billion by 1971, up ...

In many ways, the modern computer era began in the New Englander Motor Hotel in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met in secret to figure out how ...