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 ...

What weighs 5 tons and has less computing power than your watch? A pioneering piece of computing history call "Flossie," the last operating ICT 1301 mainframe. The National Museum of Computing ...

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 ...

They’re the machines that won’t die. In the 1960s many airlines, banks, and governments began processing sensitive transactions using giant mainframe computers—and their descendants are still in use.

— -- They are the dinosaurs of the computer industry. But anyone who thinks mainframe computers are going the way of typewriters and videocassette recorders is in for a surprise. "Big Iron," as ...

(AP) ARMONK, N.Y. - IBM on Tuesday introduced a new line of mainframe computers the company calls its most powerful and technologically advanced ever. IBM said its zEnterprise EC12 mainframe server is ...

It's the end of another era at NASA, although this one was perhaps more inevitable than others. Chief Information Officer Linda Cureton announced in a blog post over the weekend that the agency's last ...

A small Minneapolis mainframe computer software startup is poised to change the way enterprises use and share data across the cloud. VirtualZ Computing Inc. claims to be the first and only ...

International Business Machines Corp. on Monday unveiled its next generation of mainframes, the industrial-strength computers that underpin industries such as banking and insurance, highlighting an ...

A look at some of the reasons that mainframe computers are relied upon for critical parts of the healthcare industry. One of the best parts of my job is that I get to go to a number of enterprise ...

Most of these are pretty straightforward to figure out, but he ran into some troubles trying to understand the full adder board. The first issue is there is some uncertainty surrounding the logic ...