IBM said the S/360 was the first product family that let business data-processing operations grow from the smallest machine to the largest without the enormous expense of rewriting vital programs.

More than a century after its first punch‐card tabulators helped the U.S. Census count a growing nation, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is again surprising skeptics. Once written off as a ...

The IBM 360 is the first computer able to upgrade. Marketed to serve every degree of industry, "the IBM 360 was a response to an internal crisis," Spicer says.

It was a momentous occasion for the company, which has tweaked its business strategy numerous times since its founding in ...

There are lots of potential ways to arrange different combinations of data and measurement qubits for this to work, each ...

The company says it has cracked the code for error correction and is building a modular machine in New York state.

The internals were based somewhat on the IBM System/360’s technology. ... the first system to use a cassette deck as a storage medium, and the first purpose-built educational computer.

The IBM 360 proved a highly successful product worldwide. This model was used by Timothy J. Bergin first in teaching computer science and then in exhibits at American University. References: IBM, IBM ...

The new computer made every one of the company’s other lines obsolete, meaning that if the System/360 didn’t work as anticipated, IBM stood to lose its clientele to other firms.

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 ...