Current day personal computers (or 'PCs') are vastly different to the early computers described here. The modern PC was made possible by the development of the microprocessor in the early 1970s.

At this time there was little or no notion that computers could or would be used by individuals for either work or recreation. Early computers stored data on punched card. Those that stored ...

Little did they realize how different that early computer was from the ones that would be built a mere fifty years later. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. John ...

When you think about the dawn of modern computers, you often think about the work done in the UK and the US. But Australia ...

And for a time, a large portion of them were women. The rise of human computers began in the early hunt for Halley’s comet. The astronomer Edmond Halley had predicted that the celestial body ...

A. Computer dating first started in the late 1950s and early 1960s, in a sort of informal way, as people – especially students – started to have access to computers at universities and started playing ...

The PC turbo button and LED clock speed display were common features on early personal computers. Wanting to add a little retro chic to his modern battle-station, [Matthew Frost] assembled a ...

As part of our 30th anniversary, we look back at some memorable computer ads from the early days of CRN, like this Texas Instruments' ad featuring Bill Cosby, to see how much things have changed ...

An original Apple-1 computer, one of the first built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, was auctioned for $375,000. It was ...