This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Once wildly expensive and inaccessible but to the very ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This white plastic computer was ...

CHICAGO (AP) – William C. Lowe had a bold idea: IBM should develop a personal computer that could be mass marketed, expanding the company’s reach beyond businesses and into people’s homes. That was in ...

History records August 12, 1981 as the day IBM changed the computer industry forever by unveiling its first PC. But that machine’s official model number was 5150–marking it as a conceptual descendant ...

In 1981, the first personal computer desktop was launched by IBM. However, the IBM PC had some limitations, such as the lack of a hard drive and too few expansion ports. 40 years ago today, on March 8 ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - This year will likely be the first year that laptop PC sales will outstrip those of desktop PCs. Here are some landmark dates in the history of personal computers which evolved from ...

The landmark personal computer, introduced by IBM 30 years ago Friday, launched the PC revolution, changing the way people work, communicate, and play. Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer, works from ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Some personally operated computers, ...

Tech bloggers are fuming over a comment by an IBM vice president taking credit for the invention of the personal computer. But who actually invented the PC anyway? Turns out it's more complicated than ...

IBM is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding Thursday. Led by American capitalist icons Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. until the 1970s, the company grew from a pre-World ...

TAIPEI, Jan 7 (Reuters) - This year will likely be the first year that laptop PC sales will outstrip those of desktop PCs. Here are some landmark dates in the history of personal computers which ...