In this age of smartphone zombification, it's hard to believe that there was once a time when most people had never seen or touched a computer. When I grew up in the 1970s, we didn't have a computer.

1974: The Altair 8800 microcomputer goes on sale. It doesn't offer much, but it's the small start of a big trend toward small things. A small New Mexico company — with the big name of Micro ...

Feature A generation of gray-haired IT folks learned computing using BASIC on 1980s home computers. Every pro since then holds it in disdain. What happened?… Fifty years ago, the Altair 8800 computer ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A computer board for the Altair 8800 ...

The International Business Machines corporation is celebrating its 100th birthday this year. And to do so, the company has released a video lecture of its history that contains at least one very ...

Henry Edward Roberts didn’t set out to kick-start the computer revolution. He was just trying to get out of debt. Roberts, who died yesterday at 68, was an Air Force man in his younger days and a ...

Gadgets keep evolving. And in today’s world, they seem to be advancing sooner than ever. Even those that turn out to be hits, make a splash, have their heydays and before we know, vanish from the face ...