Sentences with phrase «v mainframe computer»

The e-book was born in 1971 when Michael Hart used a Xerox Sigma V mainframe computer to create the first e-book - The Declaration of Independence.

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On the 50th anniversary of IBM's iconic mainframe workhorse, we look at the revolutionary, lasting impact that computers, in all their many forms, have had on how we do (and sometimes don't) get work...

Groans, growls and gnashing of teeth follow as the itemized bill, the computation of which would tax a mainframe computer and which totaled slightly less than the latest contract for a fully - loaded Boeing 777, was delivered by yet another gloved hand holding yet another gilded platter.

He was bored at his Seattle school in eighth grade in 1968, so his parents switched him to a private school that happened to have a terminal linked to a mainframe computer.

When a young inventor named Steve Jobs wanted to provide computing power to «people who have no computer experience and don't particularly care to gain any,» he ushered us from the cumbersome technology of mainframes and command - line prompts to the breezy advances of the Macintosh and iPhone.

The company has found it difficult to keep up with the trend among computer users away from huge mainframe computers to networked computers, where the processing power is provided by several small machines connected together.

About a decadelater he invented an electronic mainframe computer called the Connection Machine that worked somewhat like a human brain; instead of one processor, it had 65,536, all firing at once like buzzing neurons, a model that supercomputers have used ever since.

Professionally I have worked on mainframe computers and various parts of it's production.

The usual potted history is offered, from 1960s computer dating (erroneously called «early internet dating» by Ansari — there was nothing online about those IBM mainframe, punchcard - operated services), to lonely hearts ads with their complicated, expensive voice mail services and video dating in the 1980s, followed by the emergence of Match.com in 1995 and the amazing numbers of people who use internet dating (here he reproduces the stale 2013 figure that a third of American marriages today began online; Pew recently drastically downsized the figure to say that only five per cent of married Americans have met online).

This film stars Sandra Bullock (While You Were Sleeping, Love Potion No. 9) as Angela Bennett, a beta tester for various software programs who comes upon a computer disk which has a flaw that allows access into the top secret files in the mainframe of a defense computer or some such (It's a MacGuffin as Hitch would call it, I don't need to know what it does, only that it's important and people want it.)

People who had previously used mainframe and minicomputers flocked to the personal computer, which was good enough even for their needs and significantly more affordable and convenient.

Tom Hoffer and I worked without pay, and we had to scramble for access to the university's mainframe computer.

At that time, IBM could not have existed as an independent manufacturer of mainframe computers because manufacturing was unpredictably interdependent with the design process for the machines, as well as the operating systems, core memory, and logic circuitry.

IBM therefore had to integrate backward through all of the parts of the value chain of its production that were not yet well understood and established in order to succeed in the manufacture and sale of mainframe computers.

Early computer programs were written to conserve memory space — the early computers, even mainframes, had little memory — especially compared to the computers of today.

Christensen, Overall, and Knezek (2006) pointed out that the use of computers has evolved over the past half century from a single mainframe to individual computers to ubiquitous computing where individuals fluidly use technology throughout their daily lives.

«It would take all day on a mainframe computer to run one simulation.

«I believe this works like a lot of technology works,» said Raffel, who founded UpShot Corp., now part of Oracle Corp. «At one time computers were mainframes, then we had minicomputers, then we had PCs, and they didn't totally replace minis or mainframes... The growth in the book business will be in e-books, but that doesn't mean the other is going away.»

It was started in 1971 by Michael Hart, who had been given $ 100,000,000 worth of computer time on a mainframe, and according to the project's FAQ it began to take its current form in 1991.

[24][25][26] In 1971, the operators of the Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the University of Illinois gave Hart extensive computer - time.

IBM has shifted from mainframes to personal computers, to software services, consulting and outsourcing, and now cloud computing.

The Company has staffing capabilities in the areas of mainframe and mid-range computer operations, personal computers and client - server support, internet and e-commerce operations, voice and data communications (including local and wide area networks) and help desk support.

For as long as computers have been around, villains and heroes have been logging on to do whatever the plot needs them to do, whether it's copying files or hacking into the mainframe (whatever that actually is).

Sottsass has designed an exhibition with the Design Museum London which explores a remarkable career that spans sixty years and moves from ceramics to mainframe computers and from poetry to pragmatism.

The future of energy system, we've had some really big plants, billion - dollar plants and now we have a distributed system much like computers went from mainframes to PCs and now phones.

I got in an argument with a professor who said they real programming and programs occurred on mainframes and Vaxes; the PC would never be able to run Chemtran or other computer intensive programs.

It's a concern because the internet need not be a surveillance state: back in the mainframe days we had standards for communications security from the U.S. military that demonstrated that we could have a secure computer system and network of computer systems.

Just look at the progress that has been made from a mainframe IBM 360 computer (circa 1970) to the iPad of today.

Another US giant, IBM, ceded its dominance when it was still trying to sell mainframes to a computer market that had shifted to PCs.

The person must have skills to manage numerous processing activities of the mainframe computer through programming, troubleshooting and performing systems maintenance work.

A mainframe developer has to be proficient in computer coding and programming and should be competent enough to develop, test, and support different computer applications.

Mainframe programmer resume objective 2: a highly dedicated and extremely hardworking individual with a degree in computer programming looking for the job title of a mainframe programmer in a software company which would offer me a chance to use my skills and exercise my passion for proMainframe programmer resume objective 2: a highly dedicated and extremely hardworking individual with a degree in computer programming looking for the job title of a mainframe programmer in a software company which would offer me a chance to use my skills and exercise my passion for promainframe programmer in a software company which would offer me a chance to use my skills and exercise my passion for programming.

Employers seek out candidates who have a strong mainframe COBOL background, inclusive of JCL and CICS experience, and they prefer to see a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field on applicants» resumes.

In 1977, Ken Olson, the president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., the maker of big business mainframe computers argued against the PC and stated that «there is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.»

Any company with significant requirements for computing resources would have had their own mainframe computer.