(1) Using a desktop computer as a terminal to a mainframe. See 3270 emulator. (2) An earlier expression that referred to all sizes of computers from small to large. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ...

— -- They are the dinosaurs of the computer industry. But anyone who thinks mainframe computers are going the way of typewriters and videocassette recorders is in for a surprise. "Big Iron," as ...

Representatives from seventeen groups that had ordered the IBM 704 mainframe computer meet at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. The outcome of the meeting was the first computer user's ...

IBM maintains an awesome archive of its history, collecting various documents and media it's released since being founded in 1911. We were especially intrigued by this 1970 press release singing the ...

Greenstein, Shane. "Sole-Sourcing Versus Competitive Bidding: U.S. Government Agencies' Procedural Choices for Mainframe Computer Procurement." Journal of Industrial Economics 43, no. 2 (June 1995): ...

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