We told you earlier in the year about the trio of Brits who bought an IBM System/360 mainframe computer from the mid ... and a System/370 to boot. Their van was nowhere near big enough for all ...

But that was all batch processing. The real modern computer was a timeshare system centered around an IBM 370/155. It only had 2 MB of core, half of which was “low-speed” memory. The computer ...

The IBM mainframe line that superseded System/360. Introduced in 1970, the System/370 added virtual memory and other enhancements. In the early 1980s, IBM added Extended Architecture (XA ...

The IBM mainframe is the longest running computer family in history. Although current IBM mainframes are vastly superior in technology to the System/360, they are highly compatible with it.