Hardware:
IBM System/360 (1964)
Size: Cabinet-sized
Processing: 500,000 instructions per second
Price: $2.5 million (~$22M today)
Software:
Languages: BASIC (1964), ALGOL (1960), Lisp (1958)
BASIC: Beginner-friendly, used in education
ALGOL: Foundation for modern languages (C, Pascal)
Lisp: Used in AI research and symbolic computing (1 janv. 1958 – 1 juill. 1964)