COMPUSTAT data files, distributed by Standard and Poor's Compustat Services, Inc., consist of a collection of financial, statistical, and market information covering several thousand industrial and ...

And because IBM switched its data format from the then prevalent six-bit byte to the eight-bit byte we use today, the 360 could handle more diverse types of processing, juggling business as well ...

IBM's mainframes and midrange systems as well as some UNIX systems from other suppliers use big-endian formats. Now Power 8-based systems can process data using either format. This vastly ...

Before the advent of the mainframe, IBM developed the 350 RAMAC. Built in 1956, it used a stack of fifty 24-inch disks as memory, which held about 4.4MB of data—just enough to store two pictures.

However, if you want to write SAS programs that can be run on multiple machines using different byte-storage systems, use the IBM 370 formats and informats. The purpose of the IBM 370 informats and ...

50 years ago today, IBM unveiled the System/360 mainframe, a groundbreaking computer that allowed new levels of compatibility between systems and helped NASA send astronauts to the Moon.