The venerable mainframe computer is experiencing a surprising but well-deserved resurgence, as the organizations that depend on these systems realize how important they are for digital initiatives and ...

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 ...

Big Blue is set to announce upgrades to its mainframe computer, refreshing a high-end server line many had given up as extinct. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

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 ...

My friend Wilfried in the Netherlands (he hates it if I say he's from Holland, in which case he once again explains the difference to me at great length) just pointed me toward an interesting blog on ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The SWAC (Standards Western Automatic ...

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 ...