Minicomputers were common in office, commercial, and industrial spaces, bringing computer access to the masses. It also provided local control of computing hardware. Timesharing systems with multiple ...

It came from a garage in North Carolina. “We’d been looking for many years for an IBM 360,” Lath Carlson explained. “A gentleman had passed away and … we bought it sight unseen. It was so rare that ...

Mainframe computers are often perceived as relics of the past but in reality, they continue to be the backbone of the global economy. Critical data related to finance, government, and other sensitive ...

In many ways, the modern computer era began in the New Englander Motor Hotel in Greenwich, Conn. It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met in secret to figure out how to build ...

It’s past time to retire the myth that mainframes, those impenetrable-looking boxes understood by only a few IT magicians, still store 80 percent of all corporate data. Since their introduction in the ...