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 ...

Nicolas Temese didn't use 3D printing. He built the entire model of the 1401 computer system from scratch, including teeny tiny punchcards. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and ...

Most early adopters of IBM's 5150 PC ran a Microsoft operating system known at the time as PC-DOS, which cost users $40. __1981: __IBM introduces the 5150 personal computer. It will sweep away the ...

The industrial-strength mainframe computer, invented decades ago for heavy-duty data processing, is proving its staying power even as next-generation artificial intelligence takes center stage. The ...

On June 19, 2015, UB officially shut down the IBM mainframe, transitioning to deliver the IT services it provided over to a number of smaller and more flexible machines. What exactly is a mainframe? A ...

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 computers we are used to working with are more likely to be at the smaller end of the computational spectrum. Sometimes they are very small indeed, such as tiny microcontrollers with only a few ...

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 ...