mainframe

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He had already spent nearly two decades as a tech pioneer while the industry advanced from giant mainframes fed by index cards to desktop PCs.

From Washington Post

Inside IBM, Watson was thought of as a technology that could do for the company what the mainframe computer once did — provide an engine of growth and profits for years, even decades.

From New York Times

It invited him to apply to an apprenticeship program that would pay him to be trained as a mainframe technician.

From New York Times

But it also says the mainframe computer used for background checks on suspects' characters - first built in 1974 - must be updated or replaced.

From BBC

SUSE, whose open-source software helps run applications on cloud servers, mainframe computers and devices at the edges of networks, said it was seeking to raise around 1 billion euros from investors.

From Reuters