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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 »

 

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