Sentence examples for using a mainframe from inspiring English sources

In grade school, I took a summer programming class, using a mainframe computer with punch cards.

To get a simple question answered, I had to summon the officer to the district attorney's office, using a mainframe computer system that generates a piece of paper that a sergeant hands to the officer.

"How much money could you save not using a mainframe?

In fact, just about every company using a mainframe server is quick to note that it is also deploying Unix- and Pentium-based Web servers.

"If we use a mainframe response, we will lose, and the job will fail.

Without knowing it, most consumers have probably used a mainframe computer.

He used a mainframe computer to devise simulations of the microprocessors that powered the very first personal computers.

Like Savit, he is offering an internal service that was not electronically available before He uses a mainframe-based intranet server to alert ComEd employees to information systems department activity that affects them&151such as scheduled system maintenance.

But Gates would have the companies do that by loading their site on an NT Web server and using a Microsoft mainframe connectivity product to tie into the mainframe database.

Its early mandate was simple if Sisyphean: to compile, using a hulking I.B.M. mainframe computer, a collective database of holdings that could be used at specially designated terminals in museums, universities and libraries.

It was built using a PXI 1031 mainframe equipped with a PXI 5122,14-bit digitizer, and PXI 8176 embedded controller (National Instruments, Texas, USA).