Friday, February 17, 2012

Houston to NASA Mainframe: You're Through!

Houston to NASA Mainframe: You're Through! - First the Space Shuttle, now the mainframe. It seems like NASA is doing away with the last vestiges of its swinging '70s heyday, when TV astronauts were played by stars such as Farrah Fawcette. NASA pulled the plug on its last mainframe computer this month, an IBM Z9 mainframe at the Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA's giant research facility near Huntsville, Alabama.

(Via Wired Top Stories.)

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