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 ...

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, ...

Dr. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. liked building things, first laying foundations for modern computer systems at International Business Machines Corp. and later at the University of North Carolina, where he ...

The IBM System/360 front panel is a beautiful piece of equipment. Wouldn’t you like to have one powered up, hanging on the wall in your office? It’s funny how things sometimes come together. For ...

According to [Asianometry], in 1986 the Soviet Union had about 10,000 computers. At the same time, the United States had 1.3 million! The USSR was hardly a backward country — they’d launched Sputnik ...