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Before the mid-1970s, computers were hulking mainframes housed in climate-controlled rooms, accessible mainly to governments and large corporations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Shares plummeted 13% on Monday after AI start-up Anthropic wrote a blog post detailing how its Claude Code tool can modernize the computer programming language used on IBM mainframes.

From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026

Cornell was an early adopter of mainframes and his professor mentors were moving from punch cards to mainframe batch processing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Dynatrace helps customers manage their network of myriad software systems, apps and AI tools residing on multiple cloud platforms, internal networks and mainframes.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 12, 2026

Computers up to that point had been the massive, expensive mainframes of the sort sitting in the white expanse of the Michigan Computer Center.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell