In the 1950s, a Broadway play tackled the fear that “electronic brains” would automate humans out of jobs.

A silent film showcasing techniques for splicing film and magnetic tape, both by hand and using a splicer. A look at vintage industrial classroom equipment.

From miniskirts to mainframe computers, discover fascinating history featured in Grantchester Season 10’s 1962 storyline.

Magnetic tape storage is something many of us will associate with 8-bit microcomputers or 1960s mainframe computers, but it still has a place in the modern data center for long-term backups. It&#82… ...

When you think of mainframes, you probably think of spinning tape drives, reams of computer cards, and text-only, green-on-black 3270 terminals. IBM's latest mainframe, the LinuxONE Emperor 5 , is ...

Freeform Dynamics recently caught up with VirtualZ, an often overlooked vendor of connectivity tools that bridge the gap between the mainframe, cloud and on-premise IT platform worlds. The more we ...

Francis Feldman recalled last week that as he got closer to choosing a vendor to help his company with a mainframe-to-Unix migration, he was worried. But the IT manager said that after "a sleepless ...

IBM said last week that it is adding encryption as a standard feature on its enterprise-class tape storage drives. In a short and somewhat vague announcement on its Web site that contained few ...

Among the items are an IBM 7151 console control unit, an IBM 711 card reader, two IBM 7617 Data Channel Consoles, thirteen IBM 729 magnetic tape units, and an IBM 1401 mainframe computer.

IBM Mainframe Magnetic Storage Media Photo: Frank da Cruz, July 2010; Click to enlarge Left is the well-known 10.5-inch diameter half-inch wide reel of 9-track magnetic tape, with autoloading tape ...

If you are a Canadian child of the ’90s, chances are you’ve logged a number of hours watching the computer animated television show ReBoot. The pioneering program was the first full-length 3D ...