Surprised they are still around
I started in IT on a Burroughs B3500 mainframe, and then onto a UNISYS 1100/60 before I got out of the mainframe world. Didn't even know they were still around.
Unisys looks to ‘streamline’ as losses increase, sales fall
Losses at mainframe maker Unisys plunged deeper into the red in the company's first quarter of 2015, falling a further $10 million (£6.6 million) to $27.4 million (£18.1 million). First-quarter 2015 sales fell 5 per cent to $721 million (£476 million), when compared with the previous year. The company hopes to makes savings …
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Friday 24th April 2015 19:59 GMT Stevie
Bah!
If you walked into a mainframe computer showroom you would buy the Unisys Clearpath mainframe - it's lovely, it's elegant, it's beautiful. It is quite simply the best.
And Britain should have the best. In the world of the mainframe computer it is the Saville Row suit, the Rolls Royce Corniche, the Château Lafitte 1945. It is the mainframe computer Harrods would sell you.
What more can I say?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
