Known as drab-looking machines that sit in huge air-conditioned rooms, the IBM mainframe computer has been called the dinosaur of the technology world. About a decade ago, pundits predicted it would ...

Mainframe computers have continued to endure, defying decades of technological change and overcoming predictions of their coming extinction. Now a billionaire New York hedge fund manager is making a ...

Grantchester’s milestone season explores the transformative tides of the early ‘60s—from the swagger of the “Mod” movement to the rise of mainframe computers and molecular science. Set in 1962, the ...

The prototypical high-tech "unicorn" is a startup that investors view as the next big thing. Rocket Software, which recently joined the club of private companies valued at $1 billion or more, is an ...

Introduced in 1954, the IBM 650 mainframe computer was among the first sold by that company, and was manufactured until 1962. It had three main equipment cabinets, the power unit (Type 655), the ...

The IBM z890 Mainframe computer weighs 1,500 pounds and stands over five feet tall. When it was first unveiled in 2004, it cost over $300,000. At that time, the z890 was a cutting-edge solution that ...