Before IBM was synonymous with personal computers ... so price comparison is hard. But a very large System/360 Model 195 was quite fast, could multiprocess, and had a whopping 4 MB of memory.

In the book of corporate folklore, former IBM CEO Thomas ... 1964 to introduce the System/360, which had the potential to undermine his own company's entire business model. Today on the show ...

1964: __ IBM unveils the System/360 line of ... Indeed, author James Collins has written that the System/360, along with Ford's Model T and the Boeing 707 jet, were the three most important ...

mainframe ' System / 360 ', which IBM announced in 1964, is the first model to launch a near modern-day computer as a commercial, ' OS general-purpose computer capable of sharing OS, and highly ...