In 1997, IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue (IBM RS/6000 SP), a chess-playing computer made history. It defeated the reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in a six-game match. Deep Blue was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IBM's second successful commercial computer (the first was the 650). Introduced in 1959 and offered until 1971, the 1401 was an outstanding success. More than 12,000 systems were installed ...