Bob Evans, Who Helped I.B.M. Transform Data Processing, Dies at 77 By LAURIE J. FLYNN Published: September 8, 2004 Bob O. Evans in the early 1970's. ARTICLE TOOLS E-Mail This Article Printer-Friendly Format Most E-Mailed Articles Reprints & Permissions TIMES NEWS TRACKER Topics Alerts Deaths (Obituaries) Computers and the Internet International Business Machines Corporation ob O. Evans, a computer scientist who in the 1960's led the development of a new class of mainframe computers - the famous 360's - helping turn I.B.M. into a data-processing power, died on Thursday in Hillsborough, Calif. He was 77.The cause was sudden heart failure,...