It included several models of differing cost and capabilities. These embraced a full circle of computer applications, from business data processing to sophisticated science and engineering; hence the ...

IBM 360 was my first exposure to computers back in the 70s in college, on which I learned assembler and Fortran. Stacks of Hollerith cards made on 029 punch card machines. Such memories.

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 ...

It was a momentous occasion for the company, which has tweaked its business strategy numerous times since its founding in ...

Dr. Brooks managed the development of IBM’s System/360 family of compatible mainframe computers and then the software system that went with them during the 1960s.

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 ...

Recently, a Reddit user discovered a rare RCA Spectra 70/35 computer control panel from 1966 in their family's old collapsed ...

The computer scientist Frederick P. Brooks Jr. in 2014 with a first-generation Apple Macintosh computer. Dr. Brooks, a technical leader at IBM in the 1960s, admired the design of the Mac, which he ...

Fred Brooks Jr. obituary for software engineer who helped create IBM’s System/360. Tribute to founder of UNC computer science department, author of Mythical Man-Month book.

From the System/360 of the mid-1960s through to the Kubrickian monolith of Deep Blue, IBM's aesthetic helped define the supercomputer. All of these milestones could be kicked into touch by the next ...