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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 ...
In 1967, Brown was home to exactly one computer. This mainframe machine — an IBM System/360 Model 67 — was “used by the entire campus,” said Tom Doeppner, associate professor and vice chair of the ...
Before IBM was synonymous with personal computers, they were synonymous with large computers. If you didn’t live it, it was hard to realize just how ubiquitous IBM computers were in most industries.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 1968 IBM invented virtualization with the release of the IBM System/360 Model 67 mainframe. IBM never gave up on the concept and last week released the zEnterprise mainframe, a beast that can ...
The machine had a minimum of 8KB of memory for the smaller model and 8MB in the largest version. On April 7, 1964, IBM unveiled a new generation of electronic computing equipment—"the most important ...