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 ...

We miss the days when computers looked like computers. You know, blinking lights, rows of switches, and cryptic displays. [Phil Tipping] must miss those days too since he built PlasMa, a “mini ...

And most of those mainframes come from IBM. In this explainer, we’ll look at the IBM mainframe computer—what it is, how it works, and why it’s still going strong after over 50 years.

Starting in the late 1950s and lasting for several decades, the most common form of computing was based on mainframe computers. The first major blow to the dominance of mainframes came from the ...

Networking was the exclusive domain of hugely expensive mini and mainframe computers using the hulking water-cooled communications front end processors housed in 7-foot high (sometimes bulletproof ...

MainFrames is a charming platformer that takes place inside computers It has lots of clever ideas and ends at exactly the right time.

When computers became affordable, many switched over to using general ledger applications, sometimes on time-shared mini and mainframe computers.Gradually, true write-up applications began to take ...

Thanks to their size, mini PCs are usually accessible to the end user; being on a flat, decluttered surface helps with wireless connectivity as there are fewer obstacles to impede incoming radio waves ...

The Totally 80s Rewind exhibit in Seattle’s Living Computers: Museum + Labs takes visitors back to the 1980s, the decade of the home computer revolution.

Before 1980, IBM made only mini and mainframe computers. The old-line firm just wasn't sure that the fledgling microcomputer market would be at all profitable.