Control Data Corporation ... On April 29, 2021, the Western Range at Vandenberg shut down the last CDC-built mainframe computers, known as “Cyber” systems, still in service anywhere.

In this explainer, we’ll look at the IBM mainframe computer—what it is, ... The traditional bread and butter of a mainframe are COBOL programs, data files, and JCL, or Job Control Language.

Control Data 6600: The CDC 6600 was the flagship mainframe supercomputer of the 6000 series of computers manufactured by Control Data Corporation. Docubyte / INK ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — William Norris, who founded Control Data Corp. and helped put Minnesota on the high-tech map during the last half of the 20th century, has died. He was 95. Norris died ...

While mainframe computers never went away, ... In that context, Snow White was IBM and the seven dwarfs were Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, Honeywell, ...

They’re the machines that won’t die. In the 1960s many airlines, banks, and governments began processing sensitive transactions using giant mainframe computers—and their descendants are ...

Recently, a Reddit user discovered a rare RCA Spectra 70/35 computer control panel from 1966 in their family's old collapsed ...

The era of mainframe computers and directly programming machines with switches is long past, but plenty of us look back on that era with a certain nostalgia. Getting that close to the hardware and … ...

The controls that developed around the 360 environment were all predicated on the primary concerns expressed by Finance management: that nothing interrupt processing critical to Finance. Thus ...

In 1984, the director of MIT's computer science lab said that hulking mainframe computers "are dying." More than three decades later, Bain is betting on their growth.

The industrial-strength mainframe computer, invented decades ago for heavy-duty data processing, is proving its staying power even as next-generation artificial intelligence takes center stage ...