Remember the mainframe “green screen” 3270 terminals used by so many companies? Well, they haven’t gone away. Tim Grieser, program vice president at IDC, is of the opinion that the number of currently ...

IBM mainframes are known for very unusual terminals. But IBM made many different things, including the IBM 3151 ASCII terminal, which uses a cartridge to emulate a VT220 terminal. [Norbert Keher] has ...

Mainframes continue to excel at traditional tasks such as high-speed transaction processing and running large batch workloads. Mainframes also have the ability to easily handle large amounts of ...

Sometimes a system just works. Although analysts once confidently predicted the death of the mainframe, it continues to hang on and is even on a growth curve. In the first quarter of 2007, for example ...