Expected usefulness of the IBM 7030 Stretch computer for business data processing was described at the 16th National Meeting of the Association for Computing ...

Fred Brooks, who wrote The Mythical Man Month and who worked as an architect on several important IBM computers, recently published an article about the IBM Stretch computer. Not many people know ...

"All depends on your perspective," recalled an amused Fran Allen, not at all regretting her participation in a now-storied mid-1950s supercomputer project popularly known as "Stretch." Even though IBM ...

The first transistorized computer made by IBM was the IBM 7030 or STRETCH. The first of these was installed at Los Alamos in 1961. The following year, a customized version of the STRETCH known as the ...