At the time, IBM’s 7090 series of mainframe computers formed the backbone of NASA’s mission control and data management for the Mercury and Gemini programs.

Marshall used it to process business applications, training, payroll for all of NASA's 10 centers, and space shuttle program applications. As they said, it was powerful.

A pioneering piece of computing history called "Flossie," the last operating ICT 1301 mainframe, is set for a new lease on life after recently being delivered to the National Museum of Computing ...

In 1984, the director of MIT's computer science lab said that hulking mainframe computers "are dying." More than three decades later, Bain is betting on their growth.

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE -- Control Data Corporation (CDC) was once a significant supercomputer supplier, a name familiar to everyone in the computer industry, competing with companies like ...

Today in 1959, IBM delivered the first two 7090 mainframe computers. It was the second generation after the 709 vacuum tube mainframe computers. The 7090 was six times faster than the 709 thanks to ...

IT Services News: Well, the wheel has turned a full circle and mainframe computers are making a comeback of sorts. And India, with its large outsourcing back-end operat ...

Representatives from seventeen groups that had ordered the IBM 704 mainframe computer meet at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. The outcome of the meeting was the first computer ...

House’s Mainframe Computer Is Unplugged By Emily Yehle. Posted October 9, 2009 at 6:06pm. For more than a decade, the ...

The IBM z890 Mainframe computer weighs 1,500 pounds and stands over five feet tall. When it was first unveiled in 2004, it cost over $300,000. At that time, the z890 was a cutting-edge solution ...

Fifty years ago today IBM unveiled the first mainframe computer, capable of powering everything from banks to governments. It was so expensive to design that failure would have destroyed the ...