IBM mainframes are known for very unusual terminals. But IBM made many different things, including the IBM 3151 ASCII terminal, which uses a cartridge to emulate a VT220 terminal. [Norbert Keher] has ...

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 ...

Remember when you got your driver’s license? That was a pretty big day. Now imagine that as the person at the DMV handed you your card, he or she also slipped you permits to operate a boat, drive a ...

IBM's mainframe systems are still widely used due to their reliability and security. IBM's latest mainframes feature powerful AI acceleration, enabling real-time AI inference workloads. IBM expects ...

As virtualization makes its way deeper and deeper into the data center, organizations are starting to leverage virtualization not only for the flexibility, efficiency, and reduced cost of ownership it ...

Not so fast. Mainframes have more staying power than most understand. Let’s look at the realities of mainframe technology and the people who operate it. One of the things that has often driven me nuts ...

Across Europe, many mainframes still handle the core operations of banks, government platforms, infrastructure providers, and large enterprises. In fact, according to IBM, 71 percent of Fortune 500 ...