IBM 8000

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The IBM 8000 series was an ill-fated transistor-based successor to the IBM 7000 series. Important engineers on the project included Fred Brooks and Gerry Blaauw. Despite some technical successes, the project became a political football, amid IBM's search for a unified product line. The project was canceled in 1961, supplanted by the very successful System/360 series.

Model numbers:

• 8103 Processor
• 8104 Processor
• 8106 Processor
• 8108 High Speed Floating Point Unit
• 8112 High Speed Floating Point Unit

[edit] References

Pugh, Emerson W.; Lyle R. Johnson, and John H. Palmer (1991). IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-16123-0.  [Extensive (819 pp.) treatment of IBM's offerings during this period.]

8000-Series Preliminary Manuals [1] at bitsavers.org