Math Miracles for Missileers: The Aerospace Industry, Computer Programming, and the Rise of IBM

...earlier, in 1948, engineers at Northrup Aircraft’s Hawthorne facility near the Los Angeles International Airport, made a novel connection between an IBM calculator and an IBM accounting machine (a high-end...

IBM 1401 Demo Lab

The APL Programming Language Source Code

...of APL to get widespread use outside of IBM was for the IBM System/360. Called “APL\360”, it went into service first within IBM in November 1966. (The notation “APL\360″, since...

IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design

Until the arrival of Eliot Noyes as IBM consulting director of design, IBM’s many office products were a confusion of styles: from 1930s-era punched card equipment—complete with steel Queen Anne...

IBM’s Watson “Jeopardy!” Computer Comes to CHM

...(June 10, 2013) at the Computer History Museum, IBM senior vice president and director of IBM Research Dr. John Kelly formally presented part of the IBM Watson Jeopardy! stage set...

IBM and the 1964 World’s Fair

...view of the moving grandstand and other IBM exhibits (starts at 5:55). Advertisement for the IBM Pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair, New York. As IBM sought to increase demand...

Microsoft MS-DOS early source code

Software Gems: The Computer History Museum Historical Source Code Series IBM did something very unusual for their 1981 personal computer The original IBM PC.   Rather than using IBM proprietary...

Remembering Erich Bloch (January 9, 1925–November 25, 2016)

...made his first contribution as the project engineer on the legendary IBM Stretch and who was responsible for manufacturing the IBM System/360, his work changed the fortunes of IBM to...