{"id":2959,"date":"2012-02-12T18:40:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T00:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2012-02-12T19:14:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T01:14:14","slug":"nasa-unplugs-last-mainframe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2959","title":{"rendered":"NASA unplugs last mainframe"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Of course NASA is just one of the latest high profile mainframe decommissionings. In 2009 The U.S. House of Representatives took its last mainframe offline. At the time Network World wrote: &#8220;The last mainframe supposedly enjoyed &#8220;quasi-celebrity status&#8221; within the House data center, having spent 12 years keeping the House&#8217;s inventory control records and financial management data, among other tasks. But it was time for a change, with the House spending $30,000 a year to power the mainframe and another $700,000 each year for maintenance and support.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/community\/blog\/nasa-unplugs-last-mainframe\">Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cue violins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course NASA is just one of the latest high profile mainframe decommissionings. In 2009 The U.S. House of Representatives took its last mainframe offline. At the time Network World wrote: &#8220;The last mainframe supposedly enjoyed &#8220;quasi-celebrity status&#8221; within the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2959\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[490,489],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-ibm","tag-mainframes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}