IBM was a computer juggernaut in the late ... That’s just the kind of tidbit in this post, and if you have any interest in computer history of the 1980s, you’ll definitely want to check ...

By 1980 Apple has captured 50% of the personal computer market. In 1980 Microsoft is approached by IBM to develop BASIC for its personal computer project. The IBM PC is released in August ...

The IBM 360 is introduced in April of 1964 and quickly becomes the standard institutional mainframe computer. By the mid-80s the 360 and its descendents will have generated more than $100 billion ...

Campbell-Kelly and Aspray conclude in Computer: A History of the Information Machine ... Over time [the close relationships between IBM and its customers] became IBM’s most important platform ...

One way or another, you’re interacting with operating systems. Your smartphone uses one, and your tablet and laptop do as well. However, little is said about how the ways we interact with our ...

forbade the term computer, worrying that it would antagonize ... Cortada deftly explains in his recent history of the company, IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon, owed much ...

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.

Looking to recreate an elegant bit of computing hardware from that more civilized age, [updatebjarni] built a reproduction of a 1948 IBM TR-2 ... as part of a computer history exhibit.

Few people think twice about barcodes, but in the 75 years since they were first dreamed up, they have helped save lives, gone into space and stoked fears of the Antichrist.

Earlier this month, IBM announced it had opened a new quantum data center in Europe, the first to be built outside of the United States. Located in Ehningen, Germany, IBM’s European quantum data ...

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory ... The Deep Blue-Kasparov matches were landmark events in the history of artificial intelligence. They showed the world that machines could ...