From Mainframes, To Servers, To PCs, Standards Remain As Key To Efficiency
It was fun to read about computer mainframes in the March 18 issue of the National Underwriter.

I graduated college and began working in the insurance business a few years after the IBM 360 made its debut. Ahhit seems like only yesterday. Doesnt it?

And along with the miniaturization of electronic components over the past 30 years, one would have thought that the mainframe would, one day, become a fond memory of a bygone era. But such is not the case.

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