Current Issue
Stretching Computer Technology
Jan.—Mar. 2010
While Stretch has hardly gone unnoticed, it remains understudied compared to System/360 and some of the other IBM systems it influenced. More »
Database Management Systems
The Origin of the Integrated Data Store (IDS): The First Direct-Access DBMS
by Charles W. Bachman
The Integrated Data Store (IDS), the first direct-access database management system, was developed at General Electric in the early 1960s. More »
Anecdotes
The Beginnings of TECO
by Dan Murphy
I came up with the name TECO in 1962 while sitting in Ye Hong Guey, my favorite restaurant in Boston’s Chinatown during my undergraduate years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. More »
Computing Then
Annals through the Years
For three decades Annals has been publishing path-breaking academic scholarship, pioneer accounts, and department pieces detailing the rich history of computing around the world. "Annals Through the Years" highlights this material with a few selections from each year. More »
