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Information storage devices will provide agencies with unprecedented memory power. The .small local store devices operate in as little as 200 billionthof-a-second.
puters in a decade. This is the beginning of a new generation, according to Watson, not only in computers, but in business, science, and government. More than 100. 000 businessmen from 1 65 cities atteded the introductions around the country.
The new system spans the performance range of virtually all existing IBM computers, from the 1401 to nearly twice that of the most powerful computer built by the company. It has developed to perform information handling jobs encompassing all types of applications, has been said to have two or three times the speed of the 1401 at the same price level.
The system includes in its central processors, 19 combinations of graduated speed and memory capacity. Built-in communications capability make the system available to remote terminals, regardless of distance. The equipment is supported by systems which enable scheduling of activities for non-stop computing.
Internal processing power of t largest System/360 configurator is approximately 50 times great than that of the smallest. Its bai pulse beat ranges from one m lionth-of-second to 200 billiont Df a second.
Monthly rentals for the systd will range from $2,700 for a bajl configuration to $115,000 for typical large multi-system configurl tion. Comparable purchase prk range from $133,000 to $5.5 m lion. Deliveries of the small co figuration are scheduled to beg the third quarter of 1965; for t largest configuration, the first qu; ter of 1966.
Many agencies have already i vested in computers, but the at system should permit other age cies, now inhibited by cost, to mal use of them. Watson comment! that the new system might cut inorders and future sales of oth IBM computers, but its introdu tion was necessary because of r cent developments by compctiU'
I in configuration of the new system as it »/// appear m an installation. Agency men
feel system Will provide more work at less tost, mean more use of computers by
smaller agencies in the future.
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