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Mainframe Thinking: What Today’s Young Makers Can Learn from the Giants of Computing History
At The Workshop School, we believe in "putting the work first." Whether we are under the hood of a car or coding a new app, we are part of a long lineage of problem-solvers. To understand where our modern "Maker" tools—like CAD and 3D printing—come from, we sometimes have to look back at the original heavyweights of technology: the Mainframe computers.
The Original Workshop: The Era of the Mainframe Before we had high-powered laptops in our backpacks, the Mainframe was the heart of the world’s most complex problem-solving. These massive machines filled entire rooms and required a level of "systems thinking" that mirrors what we do in our morning project blocks. Just as we must understand how every part of an engine interacts, early engineers had to understand how every vacuum tube and wire in a Mainframe contributed to…