Before IBM was synonymous with personal computers, they were synonymous with large computers. If you didn’t live it, it was hard to realize just how ubiquitous IBM computers were in most industries.

A computer that used integrated circuits, disk storage and online terminals. The third generation started roughly in 1964 with the IBM System/360. See computer generations and System/360.

It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met in secret to figure out how to build the next-generation ... the System/360. Fifty years ago on April 7, IBM announced the computer ...

In 1960, IBM’s Gene Amdahl was named manager of architecture for the System/360 mainframe. Amdahl’s challenge was to design a family of computers that would support a range of speeds and ...

It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met in secret to figure out how to build the next-generation ... the System/360. Fifty years ago on April 7, IBM announced the computer ...