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 to ...
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 ...
April 7, 1964, might not be a day you remember. But for IBM, it was monumental. On that day, you see, Big Blue introduced a major new family of mainframe computers called the System 360. The company ...
A look back shows a “resume full of significant milestones in computing history,” according to IBM. The mainframe’s handling of big data analytics and cloud computing are helping with IBM’s Smarter ...
The IBM System/360 front panel is a beautiful piece of equipment. Wouldn’t you like to have one powered up, hanging on the wall in your office? It’s funny how things sometimes come together. For ...
Known as drab-looking machines that sit in huge air-conditioned rooms, the IBM mainframe computer has been called the dinosaur of the technology world. About a decade ago, pundits predicted it would ...
Growing up the son of the highest-paid executive in America, who by the 1930s had made IBM a household name with its near-monopoly on punch-card tabulating equipment, Thomas Watson Jr. felt nothing ...