The New Yorker

The Birth of the Personal Computer

In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...

In 1963, Douglas Engelbart imagined people physically controlling computers with their hands and helped create the computer mouse

In the 1960s, Douglas Engelbart envisioned interactive computers. He developed the computer mouse, a wooden prototype with ...
The New York Times

C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89

It cost $18,000 when it was introduced in 1965, but it bridged the world between room-size mainframes and the modern desktop. By Glenn Rifkin C. Gordon Bell, a technology visionary whose computer ...
The Florida Times-Union

Computer historian from Clay County lists landmark devices: Perhaps you had one?

We asked Orange Park computer historian David Greelish, who recently made a documentary on Apple's old Lisa computer, to give us a timeline on the development of personal computers, listing specific ...