Very interesting , my late father had the option to see Houston Manned 
Spacecraft Center in the 70s or 80s. He worked for Unisys and their systems at 
that time were all Univac. Also around the same time Disneyworld was Unisys 
also. He has the option to go ack stage there also..

Now NASA is removing their mainframes, what are the replacing them with ?

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On Feb 12, 2012, at 9:29 AM, Matthew Donald <[email protected]> wrote:

>> 
>> This month marks the end of an era in NASA computing. Marshall Space
>> Flight Center powered down NASA’s last mainframe, the IBM Z9 Mainframe.  For
>> my millennial readers, I suppose that I should define what a mainframe is.
>>  Well, that’s easier said than done, but here goes -- It’s a big
>> computer that is known for being reliable, highly available, secure, and
>> powerful.  They are best suited for applications that are more
>> transaction oriented and require a lot of input/output – that is, writing
>> or reading from data storage devices.
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