The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry.

Long, long ago, the world was a quiet place.  People still wore Bell bottom trousers, without being stoned to death and ...

The personal computer industry began in 1977, when Apple, Radio Shack and Commodore introduced off-the-shelf computers as consumer products. People were very surprised walking by store windows ...

The history of personal computers, like most of human history, is a chronicle of our reach exceeding our grasp. Nowhere is this truer than with laptops and tablet PCs. The supposedly portable ...

Still, in the age of personal computers, there have been at least six different types of data storage, and it’s a fascinating ...

(The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA) The home of the largest collection of computer artifacts in the world, which includes thousands of hardware components, images, films and videos.

The story so far.... In 1975, Ed Roberts invented the Altair personal computer. It was a pain to use until 19 year-old pre-billionaire Bill Gates wrote the first personal computer language.

It’s difficult to imagine a modern office without computers of some kind — desktop PCs, notebooks, tablets and smartphones litter workplaces across the country and the world. But in the early 1970s, ...