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IBM Mainframe Going, Going, Gone Oct. 6 marked the end of an era at the Lab when the last IBM mainframe computer business applications, property management and accounting, made its final runs on the system. All applications have now been moved mostly to a UNIX configuration, which allows the Information Systems and Services department to put the 1970s-vintage IBM workhorse out to pasture. The next step is to dispose of all disk and magnetic tape files, a chore that will take two months and should be completed in December. The changeover from IBM to UNIX systems began in 1993. "It's been five years in the unmaking," said George Porter, head of Computer Operations in ISS. |
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