NASA shuts down its last mainframe computer
NASA has just powered down its last mainframe computer. Umm, everyone remembers what a mainframe computer is, right? Well, you certainly must recall working with punched cards, paper tape, and/or magnetic tape, correct? That does sound a little archaic. But all things must change, wrote Linda Cureton on the NASA CIO blog. Today, they are the size of a refrigerator but in the old days, they were the size of Cape Cod....
Source: PhysOrg - Wednesday, 15 February
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