And the flagship of the mainframe world was the IBM System/360. For a whole generation that grew up in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a 360 was probably what you thought of when someone said ...

Fifty years ago on April 7, IBM announced the computer that the task force had designed, the System/360. The system eventually became a huge success for the company—and a good thing too.

The IBM System 360 led the computer revolution. "Mad Men" designers spent two days at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., sketching the real thing to get it exactly right.

It's an IBM System/360 (see video above), and this year, we celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The 360 was actually a whole family of machines, the first line of general purpose computers that ...

We told you earlier in the year about the trio of Brits who bought an IBM System/360 mainframe computer from the mid 1960s off of a seller in Germany, only to find in the long-abandoned machine ...

The story of IBM System/360 and Thomas Watson Jr.'s innovator's dilemma : The Indicator from Planet Money In the book of corporate folklore, former IBM CEO Thomas Watson Jr. deserves a special spot.

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. Can we attribute this long run of ...

"I really like that name, the 360." Soltis' amusement at the irony of the latest Xbox sharing its number with the mainframe that established modern computing, the IBM 360, is understandable.

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Fifty years ago on April 7, IBM announced the computer that the task force had designed, the System/360. The system eventually became a huge success for the company — and a good thing too.