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 List of IBM products - Definition 

The following is a list of products from the International Business Machines (IBM) office and data processing equipment company, spanning from early-to-mid-20th-century punched card machinery and typewriters, via mainframe computers and minicomputers, to microprocessors, PCs, laptop PCs, and more.

See also: IBM mainframe, IBM minicomputer


Contents

Non-computer hardware

Keypunches and verifiers

Unit record equipment

Calculating devices

  • IBM 601 (Multiplying Punch; 1931)
  • IBM ASCC (Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator; 1944)
  • IBM 602 (Calculating Punch; 1946)
  • IBM 603 (Electronic Multiplier; 1946)
  • IBM 604 (Electronic Calculating Punch; 1948)
  • IBM SSEC (Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator; 1948)
  • IBM 605 (Electronic Calculating Punch; 1949)
  • IBM CPC (Card Programmed Electronic Calculator; 1949)
  • IBM 607 (Electronic Calculator; 1953)
  • IBM 608 (Transistorized Electronic Calculator; 1957)
  • IBM 609 (Transistorized Electronic Calculator; 1960)
  • IBM 632 (Electronic Typing Calculator; 1958)

Typewriters

Electronic computers

Computers based on vacuum tubes (1950s)

  • IBM 305 (RAMAC - Random Access Method of Accounting and Control; 1956)
  • IBM 610 (Auto-Point Computer; 1957)
  • IBM 650 (Business Magnetic Drum Data Processing Machine; 1954)
  • IBM 701 (Defense Calculator; 1952)
  • IBM 702 (Business Electronic Data Processing Machine; 1953)
  • IBM 704 (Scientific Electronic Data Processing Machine; 1956)
  • IBM 705 (Business Electronic Data Processing Machine; 1954)
  • IBM 709 (Scientific Data Processing System; 1958)
  • SAGE (Semi Automated Ground Environment; 1959)

Computers based on discrete transistors (1960s)

Computers based on SLT or discrete IC CPUs (1964 to present)

Computers based on microprocessor CPUs (1981 to present)

Computers:

Microprocessors:

Computer and calculating device peripherals

Punched card and paper tape equipment

Printer/plotter equipment and terminals

Electrical/electronic/magnetic/optical storage units

Electromechanical memory units:

Electrostatic memory units:

Core memory units:

Disk/drum drive units:

Tape drive units:

  • IBM 726 - Magnetic Tape Reader/Recorder (7 Track – 6 data bits & 1 parity bit; 100 Characters/inch)
  • IBM 727 - Magnetic Tape Reader/Recorder (7 Track – 6 data bits & 1 parity bit; 200 Characters/inch)
  • IBM 729 - Magnetic tape drive (7 Track – 6 data bits & 1 parity bit; 200/556/800 Characters/inch)
  • IBM 2321 - Data Cell Drive
  • IBM 2401 - Magnetic tape drive (9 Track – 8 data bits & 1 parity bit; 800/1600 Characters/inch)
  • IBM 3590 - Enterprise Magnetic Tape System (terabyte)
  • IBM 3850 - Mass Storage System (tapes in cartridges)
  • IBM 7330 - Magnetic tape drive (7 Track – 6 data bits & 1 parity bit; 200/556 Characters/inch)
  • IBM 7340 - Hypertape
  • IBM 7955 - IBM 7950 Magnetic tape system (22 Track – 16 data bits & 6 ECC bits; 2400 words/inch)

Optical storage units:

  • IBM 1360 - Photodigital Storage System (terabit)
  • IBM 3995 - Optical Library (terabyte)

Coprocessor units

Input/Output control units

Operator's consoles and control panels

Power supply/distribution units

IBM PC components and peripherals

Computer software

Operating systems

  • AIX, IBM's proprietary UNIX OS (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, or "AIn't uniX")
  • DOS/360 (Disk Operating System/360)
  • DPCX (Distributed Processing Control eXecutive)
  • DPPX (Distributed Processing Programming eXecutive)
  • IBSYS (TBD)
  • MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage)
  • OS/2 (Operating System/2)
  • OS/360 (Operating System/360)
  • OS/390, now z/OS (Zero down time/OS) (same z as in VM/CMS' new name z/VM)
  • OS/400, now i5/OS
  • PC-DOS (Personal Computer Disk Operating System)
  • TPF (Transaction Processing Facility)
  • VM/CMS, now z/VM (Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System)
  • VSE (Virtual Storage Extended)
  • 4690 OS (retail)

Utilities and languages

  • A20 handler for the PC (Address line 20 handler)
  • EGL (Enterprise Generation Language)
  • FAP assembler for the IBM 709, 7090, and 7094 (FORTRAN Assembly Program)
  • FORTRAN (originally developed by IBM for the 704) (FORmula TRANslator)
  • JCL batch job/scripting language (Job Control Language)
  • JES 2, JES 3 (TBD)
  • KOMPILER for the IBM 701 and 704
  • PL/I  (Programming Language/One)
  • PL/S (Programming Language/Systems)
  • REXX scripting language (REstructured eXtended eXecutor)
  • RPG programming language (Report Program Generator)
  • VisualAge compilers (C/C++, Fortran, Java, ...)

Middleware and applications



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