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 ...

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 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.

Considered the first modern mainframe, the IBM 360 launched in April 1964. Mainframes like this performed 229,000 calculations per second, helping put man on the moon.

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 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.