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.

IBM is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its S/360, the first commercially successful mainframe. But another design deserves most of the laurels.

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 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 ...

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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 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.