How to Use mainframe in a Sentence

mainframe

noun

• Old mainframes still have to be updated to work with new systems.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2018
• And that the way to make money, control politics, is to seize the mainframe.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
• Wood desks have replaced green metal mainframes, and the ashtrays and rotary phones are gone.
  — Marco Hernandez, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
• This keyboard reminds me of the kind of keyboards that used to be used on mainframe computers.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• All of this is made possible by a mainframe that gets updates wirelessly.
  — New Atlas, 10 Apr. 2026
• Valenciano got to do the honors three years ago, when the city flipped off the switch on the last of its mainframe computers.
  — Lynn Horsley, kansascity.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• Many of his days were spent recording data using a mainframe computer that took up an entire room.
  — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
• In fact, one of the earliest popular games was a mainframe game called, well, Star Trek.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 21 Aug. 2019
• It was intended to replace Forvus, a mainframe system built 50 years ago.
  — Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
• In past years, the same report was generated on the county’s old mainframe system, which Tyler helped phase out.
  — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2025
• These daunting customer-service demands have pushed airlines to automate since the dawn of mainframes.
  — Mac Schwerin, The Atlantic, 14 June 2023
• Both firms make software designed to run on mainframe computers and across networks with different types of systems.
  — Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2020
• The mounting bolts that secure the axle assembly to the mainframe structure of the brush chipper may not have been tightened properly.
  — Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2021
• Only one statistical test per day could be run on the massive IBM mainframe.
  — New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• The traditional tech companies of the time built large mainframe computers.
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 1 July 2026
• Today, of course, quantum computers are typically as large as mainframes.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Apr. 2021
• But even those numbers don’t capture the full extent of job losses in the state, in part because a 43-year-old mainframe computer cannot keep up.
  — USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2020
• The company will build a new unemployment system to replace the current mainframe, which is over 50 years old.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2021
• There is a reason why IBM mainframes have been designed and produced since 1952.
  — Matt Kimball, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Big Blue already has transformed itself to software and services provider from a seller of mainframes and PCs.
  — Steven Russolillo, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2017
• The mainframe cycle has returned, which is both remarkable and somewhat amusing in 2026.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• Each objective carries its own set of requirements and implications for whether the data is best positioned on the mainframe or in the cloud.
  — Milan Shetti, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Until then, software had not been viewed as a patentable product and was bundled into hulking mainframes like those made by IBM.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
• The world was very different then; computers were limited to mainframes, and the cost of memory to hold a single song was $1 million.
  — Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 12 June 2017
• The mainframe refresh had played a significant role in helping IBM to return to revenue growth a year ago.
  — Jay Greene, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2019
• Back in the 1960s, the dominant model was mainframe computing.
  — Ravi Mayuram, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Hounsfield’s natural talents propelled him to lead the team building the most advanced mainframe computer available in Britain.
  — Edmund S. Higgins, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2021
• Clients are looking forward to new mainframe computer in the first half of 2025, Kavanaugh told Mody.
  — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024
• The profession has absorbed mainframes, ERP systems, the cloud, and now AI.
  — Alex Lazarow, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
• As delays have mounted, so have ancillary project management costs and the price of keeping the county’s mainframe computers running.
  — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026