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 ...

IBM introduced a mainframe last week for midsize businesses. Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the IBM System/360 mainframe, the IBM eServer zSeries 890 is, according to IBM, inexpensive enough to ...

A non-IBM mainframe that runs IBM mainframe operating systems and applications. In the late 1960s, RCA's computer division produced the Spectra 70, the first line of machines compatible with IBM's ...

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.

IBM System 360 compatible and successor hardware; JCL, DOS 360, IMS, CICS and successor software; Data center management methods or processes; and, A transactions oriented business or organizational ...

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, ...

MUNICH, Germany &#151 IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano personally has opened yesterday (June 20) the computer concern's first development laboratory in Russia. The move is part of IBM's strategy to ...

Midsize businesses that want mainframe reliability, but in a smaller, less costly package than what has traditionally been available, have a new option from IBM. IBM this week introduced the z890 ...

Everything old is new again. In the 1960s, IBM's 650 mainframe operating system had two modes, MFT and MVT, in which process got its own address space and couldn't interface with others processes ...