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 ...

Most of these are pretty straightforward to figure out, but he ran into some troubles trying to understand the full adder board. The first issue is there is some uncertainty surrounding the logic ...

My friend Wilfried in the Netherlands (he hates it if I say he's from Holland, in which case he once again explains the difference to me at great length) just pointed me toward an interesting blog on ...

Mainframe computers are often seen as ancient machines—practically dinosaurs. But mainframes, which are purpose-built to process enormous amounts of data, are still extremely relevant today. If ...

Riverside County, one of the largest counties in the country, recently replaced a half-century old mainframe computer system used to calculate property taxes. While the old system badly needed ...