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Model of an IBM System 360 Computer

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 ...
PC World

The mainframe turns 50, or, why the IBM System/360 launch was the dawn of enterprise IT

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 ...
NPR

How IBM's gamble ushered in the computer age

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 to ...
Wired

April 7, 1964: IBM Bets Big on System/360

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 ...
The Harvard Crimson

Computer to be Used In April 30 Primary

Cambridge voters in the April 30 presidential primary will vote on punch-card ballots--and an electronic voting system will be able to tabulate the results within minutes after the polls close. An IBM ...