If an organization acquired one of the machines, most employees would never see it. The IBM 360 proved a highly successful product worldwide. This model was used by Timothy J. Bergin first in teaching ...

The IBM System/360 Model 67 worked via a process known as time sharing, which involves connecting many terminals to the computer. “The computer, like a master chess player, says your turn, your turn, ...

The System/360 and its successor System/370 continued to sell well into the 1970s, as punch cards were slowly replaced by IBM 3270 terminals, known as green screens.

But a very large System/360 Model 195 was quite fast, could multiprocess, and had a whopping 4 MB of memory. The cost? Somewhere between $7 and $25 million in 1971 dollars!

In 1968 IBM invented virtualization with the release of the IBM System/360 Model 67 mainframe. IBM never gave up on the concept and last week released the zEnterprise mainframe, a beast that can ...

The IBM System/360 mainframe was the darling and the workhorse of its day. McKnight/AP 1964: IBM unveils the System/360 line of mainframe computers. It was a daring innovation that transformed ...

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 ...

However, IBM had been trying to get into the educational market long before the PC. In 1969, the IBM Schools Computer System Unit was developed.