1964 was a very busy year for Fred Brooks Jr. As he was launching the computer science department at UNC-Chapel Hill, Brooks was also shuttling north to IBM’s campus in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where he ...

IT can trace its roots back to arguably the most important computer introduction made 52 years ago today. April 7, 1964 was the day IBM introduced its System/360, the first true mainframe for the ...

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, ...

It wasn’t long ago I was nostalgic about an old computer I saw back in the 1980s from HP. It was sort of an early attempt at a PC, although price-wise it was only in reach for professionals. HP wasn’t ...