• 1958

Hardware Description

The solid-state IBM 7090 is the most powerful data processing system now coming off production lines at International Business Machines Corporation. The fully-transistorized system has computing speeds six times faster than those of its vacuum-tube predecessor, the IBM 709, and seven and one-half times faster than those of the IBM 704. Announced in December, 1958, the first 7090 was installed in December, 1959.