End of an era: NASA pulls the plug on its last mainframe computer -- Government Computer News Sad news today. Well, not really, but bear with me. NASA finally shut down <http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/enterprise-architecture/232600728?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All>its last mainframe computer, an IBM Z9<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_z9> . The Z9 isn’t really all that old as computers go, having come out in 2005. But it was part of a dying breed. It might have been a fast and light model dinosaur, but it was pegged for extinction nonetheless. http://bit.ly/zwbC9M Source: http://gcn.com/articles/2012/02/14/nasa-last-mainframe-extinct.aspx?s=gcndaily_150212 See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/zwbC9M+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
