IBM Confidential: System/360 File Organization [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zokKqP0plrM

#HackerNews #IBM #System360 #FileOrganization #video #tech #history #computer #science

Peek Into IBM’s System/360 With Vintage Training Film

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/05/25/peek-into-ibms-system-360-with-vintage-training-film/

System/360 was quite an engineering feat, with an architecture developed first which supported different implementations, including using microcode or not being part of the implementation details.

From the Wikipedia entry on the generic System/360 [1]:

«System/360's chief architect was Gene Amdahl and the project was managed by Fred Brooks, responsible to Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr.»

Gene Amdahl [2] formulated the eponymous scaling law [3], while Fred Brooks [4] was the author of “The Mythical Man Month” [5], and Thomas J. Watson Jr. [6] was IBM’s second president, who managed the mainframe era of IBM. Watson, the expert system supercomputer that beat Jeopardy! in 2011 [7] was named after his father, IBM’s original founder.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Amdahl
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson_Jr.
[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Watson
https://stefanbohacek.online/@discontinued/115797198191231974

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Here's a small collection of 1960's computers appearing in the 70s and 80s. "Frankie and Johnnie... Were Lovers"has some nice shots of a IBM System/360 model 30. Brief library shots of an RCA Spectra 70 appear in "The Bionic Woman" in the episode "Jaime's Shield". Finally "The Cannonball Run" offers us shots of a panel from a GE 635.

http://www.starringthecomputer.com/newsitem.html?i=2024-11-10%2020:48

#computersinmovies #system360 #specta70 #ge635 #retrocomputing

Here's a small collection of big iron. "Charly" has a couple of IBM machines: a 7094 and a System/360. There's a really hard to spot ICT 1301 panel in the "Doomwatch" episode "No Room for Error". Finally the "Blake's 7" episode "Space Fall" (for which we had already recorded an ICT 1301) also has panels from a Sperry Univac 9400 and, making its Starring-the-Computer debut, the Sperry UNIVAC 9200/9300.

http://www.starringthecomputer.com/newsitem.html?i=2024-10-20%2018:04

#computersinmovies #univac #system360 #ibm7094 #ict1301

Episódio 157 – Dossiê IBM, Tomo I – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/10/16/episodio-157-parte-b/

#Podcast #2001 #as400 #ComputaoQuntica #Criptografia #HAL9000 #IBM #mainframe #Minicomputadores #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #System370 #System3 #System360 #System390

Episódio 157 – Dossiê IBM, Tomo I – Parte A

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/10/02/episodio-157-parte-a/

#Podcast #IBM #IBMBrasil #mainframe #MarceloSvio #podcast #Retrocomputao #Retrpolis #System360