As the use of personal computers continues to rapidly growamong community banks, the question becomes: How quickly do you throw away the mainframe? While the PC can readily position a bank's technology for the future, you may want to think twice before hauling the old mainframe to the trash bin.
The fact is that the mainframe computer still has a place in the community bank, even in a bank where PCs are popping up on everyone's desk.
Computer networking has become the technological rage in business these days. And the same is true for small banks, which are implementing PCs at a rapid pace. A survey by American Banker and the Tower Group earlier this year found that …