IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1964 IBM Corporation announced a ...

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 to ...

The IBM System/360 mainframe was the darling and the workhorse of its day. McKnight/AP __1964: __ IBM unveils the System/360 line of mainframe computers. It was a daring innovation that transformed ...

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 ...

Fred Brooks helped define computer software, in deed as well as word. He served as project manager for, and thus as “father” of, the IBM System/360 and led the design of its operating system. In his ...

Forty years. Who’d have thought it would last so long? On April 7, 1964, IBM announced its System/360. The 360 wasn’t the first mainframe, or the fastest, or even the most technically advanced. It was ...

IBM's first family of computer systems. Introduced in 1964, System/360 was the first computer series ever offered to the public. Prior to System/360, only single computers were introduced at one time.

Computing goes hand-in-hand with how to structure and access data, and this internal training film from IBM regarding file organization and data processing with System/360 is from a time when such ...

Computing goes hand-in-hand with how to structure and access data, and this internal training film from IBM regarding file organization and data processing with System/360 is from a time when such ...