IBM's Mainframe Evolution

IntroductionWe all know a PC, probably heard of supercomputers. But mainframes are not so known.

When you watch television and see a movie with a big machine, or hear people talking to each other (at college) about a mainframe do you sometimes wonder what that is? What they are talking about? Then this page is intended for you.

This page is the first in a future series to explain what a mainframe is and how it evolved in history. Who were the pioneers and what companies were, and still are, involved.

How did and how do they look like? On this page are a few pictures of the earliest mainframes.( More Details (IBM's Mainframe Evolution) )