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.

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.

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 ...

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'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 ...

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.

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 ...

"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.

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.