Who'll mind the mainframes?

Few students are learning to run decidedly unsexy, but vital, systems

By Hiawatha Bray

Globe Staff / August 26, 2005

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They're the grizzled, unglamorous veterans of the computing world, middle-aged men and women who don't create best-selling computer games or dazzling special effects for the movies. All they do is quietly run the most important computer systems in the world. (Full article: 887 words)