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 ...

BMC’s annual mainframe survey has found that businesses continue to grow mainframe workloads. In 2016, 43% of organisations said the mainframe was attracting and growing new workloads; for 2023, this ...

Around a third of modernisation projects that lift and shift mainframe workloads to a distributed architecture often fail, according to a regional executive at Rocket Software. In an interview with ...

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 ...

With AI buying up the worldwide supply of DRAM and hard drives, a wide swath of industries from automotive to cellular to PCs will face Armageddon times.

Recently, a Reddit user discovered a rare RCA Spectra 70/35 computer control panel from 1966 in their family’s old collapsed garage, posting photos of the pre-moon landing mainframe component to the ...

Attention unemployed mainframe programmers and operators: Prospects are dim for landing a mainframe IT job in the immediate future. But experts predicted last week that by about 2007, when aging IT ...

Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully ...

When Paul A. Strassmann arrived as a 19-year-old immigrant in New York in 1948, his most notable work experience was as a guerrilla warrior who blew up train tracks to stall Nazi troop movements in ...