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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IBM Corp. recently introduced a new mainframe computer that boasts a 50 percent performance boost and dramatically lower energy costs than its predecessor. The new System z10, with a starting price at ...

(Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp reported a bigger-than-expected drop in first-quarter revenue on Tuesday, hurt by tapering demand for its mainframe computers and a stronger dollar, ...

Today in 1959, IBM delivered the first two 7090 mainframe computers. It was the second generation after the 709 vacuum tube mainframe computers. The 7090 was six times faster than the 709 thanks to ...

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 ...

When Betelgeuse, the University of Manitoba’s 47-year-old mainframe computer, breathed its last recently, the computer science department turned out in full to pay their last respects. There’s a ...