Mainframe computing is having a moment — again. Nearly 60 years after the first IBM System/360 debuted as a mainframe platform, it continues to evolve in ways that defy expectations, powering critical ...

Forty years after Big Blue introduced the S/360, the zaftig systems are still going strong and finding a way to fit into 21st-century computing. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...

Before IBM was synonymous with personal computers, they were synonymous with large computers. If you didn’t live it, it was hard to realize just how ubiquitous IBM computers were in most industries.

Before IBM was synonymous with personal computers, they were synonymous with large computers. If you didn’t live it, it was hard to realize just how ubiquitous IBM computers were in most industries.

In April 1964, to meet the need of an emerging technology market for a uniform computer system, IBM introduced the revolutionary System/360 mainframe. The product of a $5 billion research and ...

I look back at my mainframe days very fondly. Hired to be a GIS code monkey on VM/SP, I would up also managing our machine, applying PUTs and even performing the upgade from VM/SP 5 to VM/SP 6--heady ...

Here's a blast from the past. Many folks in Rochester are familiar, some intimately, with IBM's System 360 mainframe. It was the precursor to the wildly popular Rochester creation - the AS/400. Here's ...

Mainframes became the symbol of stolid reliability for many years in IT departments. So when the PC revolution hit in the 1980s, these back-office powerhouses were viewed as something of a throwback, ...

Big Blue's new z990 is the most significant machine so far in the company's effort to marry the largely unique capabilities of the mainframe computer to prevailing computing trends. Stephen Shankland ...