The IBM System 360 Model 91 was the world's biggest, fastest, and most powerful computer in the mid-to-late 1960s. Columbia's 360/91 was installed in 1968 and was just coming to life around the time ...

Abstract: This paper presents a precise formal description of a complete computer system, the IBM SYSTEM/360 The description is functional: it describes the behavior of the machine as seen by the ...

50 years ago today, IBM unveiled the System/360 mainframe, a groundbreaking computer that allowed new levels of compatibility between systems and helped NASA send astronauts to the Moon. While IBM had ...

In many ways, the modern computer era began in the New Englander Motor Hotel in Greenwich, Conn. It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met in secret to figure out how to build ...

IBM had been moving into data-processing, too, and it had a variety of systems that used vacuum tubes and transistors. Business was brisk. But IBM wasn't alone and others were moving into computers: ...

Sixty years ago, I was a junior at Temple University in Philadelphia. I was interested in computers, but Temple did not offer any courses in electronic data processing. In fact, in Philadelphia, only ...

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 ...

About 1967, IBM convinced Columbia to retire its 7090-series mainframes in favor of IBM's new, but not quite ready yet, supercomputer, the IBM 360/92 (that's not a typo). The 360/50 was loaned (rented ...

IBM built its own circuits for S/360, Solid Logic Technology (SLT) - a set of transistors and diodes mounted on a circuit twenty-eight-thousandths of a square inch and protected by a film of glass ...

In many ways, the modern computer era began in the New Englander Motor Hotel in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met in secret to figure out how to ...