We’ve read a number of histories of the IBM PC and lived through that time, too. But we enjoyed [Gareth Edwards’] perspective in a post entitled The Misfit who Built the IBM PC. The titular character ...

IBM PC's 40th anniversary is this month so we glance on its beginnings, its growth and its significance(Photo by SSPL/Getty Images) One of the most important ...

IBM's PC unit piled up nearly $1 billion in cumulative losses in recent years, the company said in a filing detailing the planned sale of the business to China's Lenovo Group. The merger of IBM's PC ...

IBM was a big player in the early days of personal computing. In 1981, IBM introduced the "PC," followed by the PC-XT in 1983 ...

It wasn’t long ago I was nostalgic about an old computer I saw back in the 1980s from HP. It was sort of an early attempt at a PC, although price-wise it was only in reach for professionals. HP wasn’t ...

The personal computer industry began in 1977, when Apple, Radio Shack and Commodore introduced off-the-shelf computers as consumer products. Known as the "1977 Trinity," the Apple II, Radio Shack ...

A sale of IBM's PC unit would be the latest example of a move toward consolidation as the market reaches maturity. A third of today's top 10 manufacturers could exit the PC business by 2007, according ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Are you old enough to remember the sort of keyboard that ...

The words you’re reading are time travelers. They were written on a laptop that is technically brand new, in the sense that it was only released recently. But everything from the word processor this ...

IBM, one of the world’s oldest tech companies, is building a refrigerator. That, in itself, is not unprecedented. Other tech companies have built fridges before. LG sells the impressive ...

CRN was launched in 1982, back then it was known as Computer Retail News. As part of our 30th anniversary, we look back at some memorable computer ads from the early days of CRN, like this Texas ...