IBM 8000

IBM 700/7000 series
TypeMainframe/
scientific computer
Release dateNot released
PredecessorIBM 700/7000 series
SuccessorIBM System/360
RelatedIBM 1400 series

The IBM 8000 series was a proposed transistor-based successor to the IBM 7000 series. Important engineers on the project included Fred Brooks and Gerry Blaauw. The project plan for the 8000 series was presented by Fred Brooks in January 1961. 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 by Bob Evans, supplanted by the successful System/360 series.

The 8000 project may have seen the first use of the term "architecture" in relation to computers.[1]

  1. ^ Gifford, David; et al. "Case Study: IBM5 SYSTEM/360-370 ARCHITECTURE" (PDF). Retrieved October 18, 2012.