Sentence examples for the first mainframe from inspiring English sources

I.B.M., based in Armonk, N.Y., invented the first mainframe computer in 1964 and still dominates much of the business.

For in addition to revenge, lucre and the girl, its characters were strangely preoccupied by codebreaking, alchemy and, in the case of Leibniz -- yes, that Leibniz -- building what we would now call the first mainframe computer.

But as Ling Zhijun, a respected Chinese journalist, chronicles in this exhaustive new account, Mr Liu and his colleagues most of whom started in business in their 40s had no experience of running a private company, no idea about modern computers (the first mainframes had to be cooled with ice cubes and a fan) and a formal education that had been cut short by the Cultural Revolution.

Getting one software program to talk to another has been tricky ever since a programmer created the second mainframe application and tried to connect it to the first.

Olivetti was also working with a young Italian architect Ettore Sottsass, who collaborated with Roberto Olivetti and the engineer Mario Tchou on a series of innovations, including the Elea 9003, Italy's first mainframe computer.

First, mainframes have a good reputation for security, so IT departments often don't take the basic measures they do with PCs and Unix boxes.

McKinsey believes that the transformative power of all of this data will amount to a fifth wave in the technology revolution, building on the first four: the mainframe era; the PC era; the Internet and Web 1.0 era; and, most recently, the mobile and Web 2.0 era.

It's not a coincidence that today's announcement comes after another one last winter at the CeBIT Technology Fair in Germany, where the company launched what it calls the first software defined mainframe and announced partnerships with Red Hat and Microsoft (who themselves announced a partnership around the same time to bring RHEL to Azure).

Banks were the first to use mainframes in the 1960s; many are still using the original applications because it is risky to swap them out.

The first large wave was the mainframe era, when many people had to share single machines.

In one, he was instrumental in developing the first time-sharing system for mainframe computers.