The IBM 360 is introduced in April of 1964 and quickly becomes the standard institutional mainframe computer. By the mid-80s the 360 and its descendents will have generated more than $100 billion ...

From the CDC 6600 to Seymour Cray and beyond, supercomputers dominated science, industrial, and military research for decades ...

A piece of computer history has been on display at the Vienna Museum of Technology for 50 years: the "Mailüfterl" was the ...

By 1980 Apple has captured 50% of the personal computer market. In 1980 Microsoft is approached by IBM to develop BASIC for its personal computer project. The IBM PC is released in August ...

If you think of IBM mainframe computers, you most likely are thinking of the iconic S/360 or the slightly newer S/370. But what about the 7070 from 1958? It had transistors! It didn’t ...

The IBM mainframe is the longest running computer family in history. Although current IBM mainframes are vastly superior in technology to the System/360, they are highly compatible with it.