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 ...

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 ...

Bob O. Evans, a computer scientist who in the 1960s led the development of a new class of mainframe computers the famous 360s helping turn IBM into a data-processing power, died Sept. 2 in ...

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 ...