I started on an IBM 1620. If you planned to do a multiply, you had to preload the multiplication tables from a punch card deck. Interesting note- the IBM System/360 operating system was hailed as ...

McKnight/AP 1964: IBM unveils the System/360 line of mainframe computers. ... System/360 components included the CPU, control unit, display terminal, printer, data-cell storage, ...

This computer wasn’t a crusty old Commodore 64 though, instead it was a room-sized IBM System/360 Model 20 from the 1960s, complete with the full array of peripherals and what seemed to be a lot ...

IBM, which had entered the computer market back in 1953, was about to change all that. The IBM System/360 was launched in 1964, and is considered by some to have been the most successful mainframe ...

The IBM System/360 computer absorbed, translated, calculated, evaluated, and relayed this information for display. It was one of five System/360 machines used by NASA for the Apollo 11 mission.

IBM made a big bet in when it released the System/360 family of mainframes in 1964. They're not exactly IBM's biggest hit today, but they did help computing move forward, toward interoperability.

The IBM mainframe is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The first System 360 mainframe was unveiled on 7 April 1964 and its arrival marked a break with all general purpose computers that came before.

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 ...

It’s 1969 on this season’s Mad Men, and a glass-enclosed climate-controlled room is being built to house Sterling Cooper’s first computer — a soon-to-be-iconic IBM System/360 – in the ...

1964: IBM unveils the System/360 line of mainframe computers. It was a daring innovation that transformed business, science, government and the IT industry itself. Computing was changing fast ...