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 ...

April 7, 1964, might not be a day you remember. But for IBM, it was monumental. On that day, you see, Big Blue introduced a major new family of mainframe computers called the System 360. The company ...

Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of that mainstay of computing, the mainframe. Back in 1964, IBM rolled out the System/360 — the first computer that was compatible and upgradable. In other ...

For decades, IBM mainframes were relatively wimpy processors with lots of I/O channels that could support dozens of disks, printers, terminals and comm links. The new Mac Pro is hardly wimpy, but its ...

The average consumer doesn’t physically see or touch a mainframe like they do their mobile devices. The release of the first mainframe computer, System 360, 50 years ago sparked a revolution in ...

The CICS (Customer Information Control System) application server, which runs on the IBM mainframe, processes 1.1m transactions per second, significantly more than the number of Google searches. Yet ...

Gene M. Amdahl, chief architect of IBM’s System/360 mainframe and later the creator of the IBM plug-compatible mainframe vendor that bore his name, has died aged 92. Amdahl was born in South Dakota, ...