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
“But the COBOL-based mainframe remains deeply embedded in large enterprises.”
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
He views the mainframe business as “resilient” given examples from IBM of how customers are growing, not shrinking, their workloads.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026
The dynamic forces behind this era of globalization were breakthroughs in hardware—from steamships and railroads in the beginning to telephones and mainframe computers toward the end.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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Computer Science and Technology - Middle School
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