John Markoff Steve Lohr of the New York Times has a good piece on an interesting product that you and I won’t be buying: IBM’s new mainframe computer, which Big Blue announced today. The story ...

Starting in the late 1950s and lasting for several decades, the most common form of computing was based on mainframe computers. The first major blow to the dominance of mainframes came from the broad ...

IBM has unveiled its newest mainframe computer, the Z17, which it claims has redefined artificial intelligence (AI) at scale. The next generation of the company’s mainframe system is powered by an IBM ...

The bleeding edge? The industrial-strength mainframe computer, developed decades ago for heavy-duty data processing, continues proving its staying power even as next-generation artificial intelligence ...

In 1964, after considerable delay, the U.S. Patent Office granted a patent to J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly for "an electronic numerical integrator and computer," as embodied in the ENIAC ...

IBM took the wraps off a new mainframe computer on Tuesday, promising it will help customers to detect more fraud in real time and plow through billions of transactions generated each day by ...

International Business Machines Corporation on Monday announced it will invest $150 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, including more than $30 billion to advance American manufacturing of ...

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In a lawsuit, IBM alleges that the mainframe "emulator systems" offered by Platform Solutions Inc. violate IBM patents on its z/OS operating system as well as patents relating to its previous ...

In brief: An upcoming auction of the IBM 7090 at Christie's presents an opportunity to acquire a pivotal artifact from the early days of the digital era. This event is expected to draw considerable ...