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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced last week that Bob Metcalfe is the recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for the invention, standardization, and commercialization of ...

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 ...

Ada Lovelace was a visionary who first recognized the potential of computer programming. Almost two centuries on, six women in computer science and technology reflect on their experiences in the field ...

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