Forty years after Big Blue introduced the S/360, the zaftig systems are still going strong and finding a way to fit into 21st-century computing. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...

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 space agency powers down its last System Z machine, years after IBM stopped selling them for the mathematical calculation jobs for which NASA originally bought them. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Forty years. Who’d have thought it would last so long? On April 7, 1964, IBM announced its System/360. The 360 wasn’t the first mainframe, or the fastest, or even the most technically advanced. It was ...

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, ...

Gene Amdahl, the man responsible for the modern design of the mainframe computer, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 10 in Palo Alto, Calif. at the age of 92. While his cause of death has not been ...

Mainframe computing was born in the 1960s with the arrival of the System/360, and has continued to advance today to the z14, and continues to set the standard for the ultimate in security, ...

The S/360, the computer that spawned IBM's mainframe line, turns 40 on Wednesday--but it's not wallowing in a midlife crisis. Although some pundits regularly declare the death of the mainframe, the ...

IBM's first family of computer systems. Introduced in 1964, System/360 was the first computer series ever offered to the public. Prior to System/360, only single computers were introduced at one time.