Why Costco still relies on IBM computers from the '80s

If you've ever looked over at one of the terminals a Costco employee is using, you may be wondering why it looks like ...
Gizmodo

Gigantic Computers, Huge Reels of Tape – Remember the 80s?

At my first office job in the mid-80s, we backed up the computer every night on reels of magnetic tape. Here, in a scene from a slide show of 1980s IBM mainframe computer ops (all set to a snappy ...
Hackaday

IBM’s Early PC Attracts Time Travelers

It wasn’t long ago I was nostalgic about an old computer I saw back in the 1980s from HP. It was sort of an early attempt at a PC, although price-wise it was only in reach for professionals. HP wasn’t ...
Wall Street Journal

Computers, Not Inflation, Fueled ’80s Boom

In “Inflation and the Trump Factor” (Business World, June 15), Holman Jenkins, Jr. writes, “It’s no exaggeration to say the 1970s inflationary upheaval produced the resurgent ’80s and ’90s.” I ...