Along with fueling privacy concerns, of course, the mainframes helped prompt the growth and innovation that we have come to associate with the computer age.
Much larger problems, of course, may be dealt with on mainframe machines.
Many universities still offer courses in Cobol, the language used on creaky mainframe systems, even though work in that field is now largely limited to keeping old legacy databases alive.
To encourage students to acquire mainframe skills, it is visiting universities, offering expertise and suggesting course curriculums.
In junior high I took some courses at a local science center that had a donated mainframe computer.
"Of course, back then, we were doing usability testing of mainframe screens," he said.
For laboratory exercises, the courses offered at ARRSTC used expensive, proprietary minicomputer- and mainframe-based image processing software which required special graphics display hardware.
The article is based on the results of the experience developed in the mainframe of the educational innovation project performed at La Laguna University during the 2012-2013 acourses courses.
In the end, I graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with honors in the major, having excelled in the department's three-term sequence in quantum mechanics and a graduate course in gravitational physics, all while teaching myself to program Yale's mainframe computer.
Back in the '70s, in the only computer science course I ever took, I did some things I cannot recall involving punch cards and a mainframe computer.
