COMMENTARY--It's always a pleasure to celebrate the anniversary of a technology that's older than me. Thus, small sweet sherries all round for the birthday of IBM's S/360 mainframe, launched 40 years ...

Following is the IBM mainframe evolution starting with the System/360 introduced in 1964. The IBM mainframe is the longest running computer family in history. Although current IBM mainframes are ...

I look back at my mainframe days very fondly. Hired to be a GIS code monkey on VM/SP, I would up also managing our machine, applying PUTs and even performing the upgade from VM/SP 5 to VM/SP 6--heady ...

In April 1964, to meet the need of an emerging technology market for a uniform computer system, IBM introduced the revolutionary System/360 mainframe. The product of a $5 billion research and ...

A new zSeries module serves as a dedicated processor for Java applications and debuts in time for the 40th anniversary of the mainframe. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he ...

Here's a blast from the past. Many folks in Rochester are familiar, some intimately, with IBM's System 360 mainframe. It was the precursor to the wildly popular Rochester creation - the AS/400. Here's ...

IBM today is marking the 40th anniversary of its first mainframe by introducing the zSeries 890 mainframe server for midsize enterprise customers. “We’re introducing a brand-new IBM eServer zSeries ...

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 ...