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 ...

IBM introduces the System/360 as a new generation of electronic computing equipment. It’s named after the degrees in a circle, since it was meant to encompass every need of every user. IBM computers ...

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 mainframe computer has been around for over half a century, and it seems like people have been predicting its demise for almost as long. But the only thing going away is the workforce that ...

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 ...