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 ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The most popular things to do with the state Division of Motor Vehicles are down until further notice because of a computer mainframe issue. The agency announced Thursday morning ...

Starting in the late 1950s and lasting for several decades, the most common form of computing was based on mainframe computers. The first major blow to the dominance of mainframes came from the broad ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a portion on the memory of the Standards Electronic Automatic Computer (SEAC), the first electronic computer with internally stored programs built in the United States. The first of three ...

Mainframe computers are the backbone of many global industries, and integral to industry sectors such as finance, healthcare, transportation, and government. However, the personnel trained to manage ...

IBM mainframes are known for very unusual terminals. But IBM made many different things, including the IBM 3151 ASCII terminal, which uses a cartridge to emulate a VT220 terminal. [Norbert Keher] has ...

In a week fraught with mainframe-related news, Microsoft and Micro Focus are the latest companies to join the ruckus. Microsoft and Micro Focus teamed up on Thursday to detail a program designed to ...

The third antitrust complaint against IBM’s mainframe business was filed with the European Commission Tuesday, compounding the firm’s regulatory problems in Europe. Recently created TurboHercules, a ...