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 ...

If you think of IBM mainframe computers, you most likely are thinking of the iconic S/360 or the slightly newer S/370. But what about the 7070 from 1958? It had transistors! It didn’t, however, use ...

The bleeding edge? The industrial-strength mainframe computer, developed decades ago for heavy-duty data processing, continues proving its staying power even as next-generation artificial intelligence ...

In 1964, after considerable delay, the U.S. Patent Office granted a patent to J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly for "an electronic numerical integrator and computer," as embodied in the ENIAC ...

IBM took the wraps off a new mainframe computer on Tuesday, promising it will help customers to detect more fraud in real time and plow through billions of transactions generated each day by ...

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In brief: An upcoming auction of the IBM 7090 at Christie's presents an opportunity to acquire a pivotal artifact from the early days of the digital era. This event is expected to draw considerable ...

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 ...

In a lawsuit, IBM alleges that the mainframe "emulator systems" offered by Platform Solutions Inc. violate IBM patents on its z/OS operating system as well as patents relating to its previous ...