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 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.

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 ...

1964: __ IBM unveils the System/360 line of mainframe computers. It was a daring innovation that transformed business, science, government and the IT industry itself. Computing was changing fast ...