In the book of corporate folklore, former IBM CEO Thomas Watson ... to introduce the System/360, which had the potential to undermine his own company's entire business model.

Before IBM was synonymous ... very powerful today, the 360 holds up pretty well. Most of them were 32-bit machines although there was at least one 16-bit bargain model and one that did everything ...

It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met in ... Before the System/360 introduction, manufacturers built each new computer model from scratch. Sometimes machines were even ...

April 7, 1964 was the day IBM introduced its System/360, the first true mainframe for the masses, or at least that’s what it hoped on that day. IBM said on that day that it announced the S/360 ...

The IBM System/360 mainframe was the darling ... Indeed, author James Collins has written that the System/360, along with Ford's Model T and the Boeing 707 jet, were the three most important ...

All this made the 360 incredibly successful and helped make IBM a computing powerhouse. "This [was] the face of computing in the 1960s. Basically, every company above a certain size had a model ...

50 years ago today, IBM unveiled ... The smallest model could perform 33,000 additions per second; the largest more than 750,000 additions per second." System/360 machines were crucial for ...