IBM’s president at the time, Tom Watson, Jr., killed off other IBM computer lines and put the company’s full force behind the System/360. IBM’s revenue swelled to $8.3 billion by 1971, up ...

System/360 Model 91 in the late 1960s. We're seeing industry pundits from all quarters take the time to congratulate or castigate IBM for being able to sell variations of the System/360 for 50 years.

The IBM mainframe Unveiled on April 7, 1964, by IBM Chairman Thomas Watson Jr., the mainframe, also known as System/360, enabled companies to do multiple tasks on a computer at the same time.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

IBM, IBM System / 360 Installation Manual - Physical Planning. E. W. Pugh, L. R. Johnson and J. H. Palmer, IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991. Location Currently not on view ...

I was introduced to the IBM System/360, which was their newest mainframe computer. At the same time, I took classes at the Brooklyn Poly facility in Farmingdale near Grumman.

Thomas Watson Jr. oversaw IBM’s transition to the computer era with enormous success. He had help from his father—and the U.S. government.