IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Payload and General Purpose ...

It was said to weigh 30 tons (that’s about 20,000 times the weight of the human brain and 65 concert-type Grand Pianos!) and needed 18,000 vacuum tubes to process data. Well, today is a special day — ...

This was the headline, 65 years ago, on a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of September 7, 1960. The story opens: An all-transistor general purpose computer, the GE-225, has been developed by ...

mainframe ' System / 360 ', which IBM announced in 1964, is the first model to launch a near modern-day computer as a commercial, ' OS general-purpose computer capable of sharing OS, and highly ...