The era of mainframe computers and directly programming machines with switches is long past, but plenty of us look back on that era with a certain nostalgia. Getting that close to the hardware and ...

John Markoff Steve Lohr of the New York Times has a good piece on an interesting product that you and I won’t be buying: IBM’s new mainframe computer, which Big Blue announced today. The story ...

Not so fast. Mainframes have more staying power than most understand. Let’s look at the realities of mainframe technology and the people who operate it. One of the things that has often driven me nuts ...

"This compact history traces the computer industry from its origins in 1950 mainframes, through the establishment of standards beginning in 1965 and the introduction of personal computing in the 1980s ...

It may come as a surprise that many large Australian corporate and government organisations rely on mainframe platforms to run their core operations. Mainframes remain among the most reliable and ...

The cloud killed the mainframe? I'm not so sure. Let's take a look at what the next decade has in store for big iron. For more than 50 years mainframes have powered thousands of organizations around ...

Kyndryl’s latest State of mainframe modernisation report has found that organisations can achieve as much as a 225% return on investment in mainframe modernisation projects, yet many lack the ...

This light-sensing pointing device, called a "light gun," was used with the Whirlwind computer. It has an "L" shaped cylindrical body of aluminum with a gray hammertone finish. There is a micro switch ...