The era of mainframe computers and directly programming machines with switches is long past, but plenty of us look back on that era with a certain nostalgia. Getting that close to the hardware and ...

BMC’s annual mainframe survey has found that businesses continue to grow mainframe workloads. In 2016, 43% of organisations said the mainframe was attracting and growing new workloads; for 2023, this ...

During the 1990s the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant – formerly the Chernobyl NPP – continued operating with its remaining three RBMK reactors, but of course the 1970s-era automation ...

From the screech of dial-up modems to the whirring of floppy disks, these iconic computer sounds take us on a journey back in time.

Attention unemployed mainframe programmers and operators: Prospects are dim for landing a mainframe IT job in the immediate future. But experts predicted last week that by about 2007, when aging IT ...

The programming language known as COBOL, which stands for Common Business Oriented Language, turns 65 this year. We couldn’t help noticing that’s right around retirement age, but COBOL is nowhere near ...

Mainframes are no longer seen as a constraint on public sector digital transformation, with government agencies abandoning rip-and-replace strategies in favour of modernising mainframe systems with hy ...