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
In February, IBM stock posted its worst decline in 25 years—tumbling sharply on news that Anthropic had released AI tools that could help with modernizing Cobol, a programming language mainly run on IBM mainframe computers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Despite Mother’s “get out of jail free” card, she was still determined to climb the wall and hack into the company’s mainframe.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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Computer Science and Technology - Middle School
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