1 A Look at Mainframe History as IBM System/360 Turns 50, COBOL Turns 55. by Darryl K. Taft. 2 1956: The Beginnings of a Mainframe. Before the advent of the mainframe, IBM developed the 350 RAMAC.

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 ...

The 64-bit OS was developed by IBM for the Z/Architecture family of mainframe computers, and it has compatibility with the older MVS mainframe OS. It was released in 2000 and is backward ...

The 1970s was a somewhat awkward phase for the computer industry — as hulking, room-sized mainframes became ever smaller and the concept of home and portable computers more capable than a bas… ...

For two decades, people in tech circles have been saying that the mainframe is on its way out, or that it's dead altogether. Funny thing about that -- someone forgot to tell IBM.. Just look at IBM ...

IBM’s mainframe has always been a system with a larger focus that seemingly shifts from release to release. With the arrival of the z9 in 2005, for instance, the emphasis was on security and ...