The computers we are used to working with are more likely to be at the smaller end of the computational spectrum. Sometimes they are very small indeed, such as tiny microcontrollers with only a few… ...

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 ...

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.

IBM says it will offer Linux supporters the next best thing starting this week: free access to one of the computing giant's powerful mainframe sytems.