IBM's new z13 mainframe. IBM quit making PCs in 2005, and it quit making servers last year. But it looks like Big Blue will keep pumping out its mainframes forever. On Tuesday, IBM launched the z13, which it bills as the first mainframe specifically designed to accommodate the booming mobile app economy. Mainframesâthe refrigerator-sized, pre-PC computers beloved of government, corporations, and Tronâwere long synonymous with IBM, which introduced its first mainframe in 1952.
Arkansas Time Zone. Arkansas is in the Central Time Zone in the United States of America (USA). US Central Standard Time (CST) is 6 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT-6). Current time now in Time Zone: America Chicago (USA Central Time)
Arkansas becomes quite sultry in summertime, as tropical air streams in from the Gulf of Mexico. The statewide average high temperature in the hottest months of the year, July and August, hovers in the low 90s Fahrenheit, and highs can occasionally reach into the triple digits. Overnight lows dip only into the low 70s.