Flossie will remain in storage against a time in the near future when, space permitting, the mainframe computer will be reassembled and set to running again.

The space agency knew that it would need more ... At the time, IBM’s 7090 series of mainframe computers formed the backbone of NASA’s mission control and data management for the Mercury ...

Sittra Battle flipped a switch at Marshall Space Flight Center Jan. 26 and shut down NASA's last mainframe computer. That switch flip made Battle and the refrigerator-sized IBM Z9 somewhat famous ...

The term mainframe conjures ... on the ultra-powerful computers, which have shrunk considerably over the decades but still take up about 32 square feet of floor space, stand as tall as LeBron ...

It was the second generation after the 709 vacuum tube mainframe computers. The 7090 was six times faster than the 709 thanks to the use of more than 50,000 transistors and magnetic core storage, but ...

About five companies in the southern Texas region each decided to pay a $25,000 fee to either SunGard or Comdisco for emergency mainframe computer space, so they could continue operating if their ...

Today, everything held on the 13-year-old mainframe could fit on a computer smaller than a breadbox ... servers in their offices for virtual space on a server in the Ford Building.

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 ...