The roots of IBM date back to the 1880s, tracing from four predecessor companies: The Bundy Manufacturing Company was the first manufacturer of time clocks.The company was founded in 1889 by Harlow Bundy in Binghamton, New York.; The Tabulating Machine Company was the first manufacturer of punch card based data processing machines. Herman Hollerith started …

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 171 countries.The company began in 1911, founded in Endicott, New York, by trust businessman Charles Ranlett Flint, as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed "International …

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and each one causes a different single character to be produced on paper by striking an inked ribbon selectively against the paper with a type element.At the end of the nineteenth century, the term 'typewriter' was also applied to a person who used such a …

IBM 2314 Disk Access Storage Facility Model 1. The IBM 2314 Disk Access Storage Facility Model 1 was introduced on April 22, 1965, one year after the System/360 introduction.. The original Model 1 consists nine disk drives bundled together with one price; separately shipped was a storage control unit, a single drive module, and two four drive modules for a total of nine …

Consola del operador de un System/360 Model 65, con válvula de registro, lámparas y switches (mitad de la fotografía), y arriba a la derecha, un interruptor de emergencia rojo. ... el 85 introdujo memoria caché. Los modelos 44, 75, 91, 95 y 195 se implementaron con lógica cableada, en lugar de microcódigo como todos los otros modelos ...

L'International Business Machines Corporation (comunemente nota come IBM, e soprannominata "Big Blue"), ... 126.85 352,600: Critiche ... 1965 Lo stabilimento di Milano produce il primo IBM System/360 Model 20. L'IBM annuncia i progetti per costruire un secondo stabilimento in Italia con 1.200 dipendenti e si pongono le fondamenta per la nuova ...

Terminology. The term "PC" is an initialism for "personal computer". While the IBM Personal Computer incorporated the designation in its model name, the term originally described personal computers of any brand.. In some contexts, "PC" is used to contrast with "Mac", an Apple Macintosh computer. Since none of these Apple products were mainframes or time-sharing …

On the high end System/360 models, most System/370 and some later systems, the functions of the switches and the LOAD button are simulated using selectable areas on the screen of a graphics console, often an IBM 2250-like device or an IBM 3270-like device. For example, on the System/370 Model 158, the keyboard sequence 0-7-X (zero, seven and X ...

Beyond the IBM System/360 era. One example of specific hardware used by a console operator is the IBM 3066 Model 2 system console, which included a light pen [citation needed] as an interface device. Other then-new features were: replaced "most switch, pushbutton, and indicator functions" as with the 165's Model 1, had a microfiche document viewer,<>the online manual …

IBM first used ICs in computers for the logic of the System/360 Model 85 shipped in 1969 and then made extensive use of ICs in its System/370 which began shipment in 1971. The integrated circuit enabled the development of much smaller computers. The minicomputer was a significant innovation in the 1960s and 1970s. It brought computing power to ...