mainframe
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They include a nugget from the California gold rush; an 1879 lightbulb by Thomas Edison; a mainframe component from ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer that was built in 1946 and weighed 30 tons.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
“It was a shot to the heart and the chest and the mainframe with Luka,” James told reporters.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
There is a perception that IBM’s mainframe business could be threatened by AI.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
“IBM’s customers have had ample opportunities to migrate off of mainframe and are sticking with the platform given inherent advantages.”
From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026
The university’s enormous mainframe computers stood in the middle of a vast white room, looking, as one faculty member remembers, “like one of the last scenes in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.”
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Computer Science and Technology - Middle School
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