Konrad Zuse, a German engineer, completes the first general purpose progammable ... and quickly becomes the standard institutional mainframe computer. By the mid-80s the 360 and its descendents ...

The Sudden Surge of Quantum Computing Quantum computing has been making strides these last months. It started with Google’s ...

These machines, particularly the PDP-8 and PDP-11, were smaller and more affordable than the mainframe computers of that era, making them more accessible to businesses and educational institutions.

The computers we are used to working with are ... the mustard in the upper echelons of corporate computing. There the mainframe still rules, sitting in air-conditioned machine rooms and providing ...