What Became of Mainframes?
“Mainframes will soon be extinct”, …
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The First Mainframes
The First Mainframes
Big businesses with big needs required big …
Mainframes in Daily Life
ATMs
Computers were great for a bank’s accounting. But how about …
The Virtues of Sharing
The Virtues of Sharing
Big companies could afford big mainframes. But…
Floppy Disks
Storage on the cheap: Floppy Disks
Magnetic hard disks transformed …
General Automation
General Automation
Not every minicomputer company was created by …
Computerizing Car Design: The DAC-1
Computerizing Car Design: The DAC-1
In the late 1950s, the world’s …
ICs Rocket to Success
ICs Rocket to Success
Early integrated circuits were expensive. So …
IBM System/360
IBM System/360
IBM dominated computing in 1961, with about two-thirds…
Interfaces to Go
Interfaces to Go
Portable computers with screens and keyboards …
