71. Interface Systems makes equipment that lets computers in branch offices retrieve documents from mainframe computers. 72. In the past, IBM has used so-called e-beam manufacturing systems in making specialized semiconductor chips used in its mainframe computers. 73. International Business Machines Corp. introduced faster versions of its mainframe computers that are expected to bolster sagging sales of the product line. 74. Islandia, New York-based Computer Associates bought rival Legent Corp. last year to bolster its software that runs mainframe computers. 75. In those days, the computer world was almost totally composed of giant mainframe computers. 76. Investors already are braced for a slow quarter at Computer Associates International Inc., which specializes in software for managing mainframe computers and networks. 77. Investors generally praised those results as proving IBM could boost earnings even in the face of weak demand for large mainframe computers. 78. It has weaned itself from an overdependence on Pentagon money, outmoded mainframe computers, and real-estate dollars. 79. It developed the once-omnipresent line of VAX mainframe computers, as well as the popular AltaVista Internet search engine. 80. It even started showing up in offices that had depended solely on huge mainframe computers until then. |