Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow ...

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.

After previously working out a suitable approach to create a period-correct paper tape reader for his tube-based, MC14500B processor-inspired computer, [David Lovett] over at the Usagi Electric farm ...

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was a compact and affordable personal computer when it first launched in 1982 for £125 (the equivalent of £470 or $745 in 2022). Designed to use tape cassettes for storage, it ...

One of the towering figures in the evolution of computer science was Grace Hopper, an American mathematician, academic, and Naval reservist, whose work gave us the first programming languages, ...

Magnetic tape is seeing something of a revival as a storage medium. The need to protect data against malware, as well as renewed interest in disaster recovery and business continuity, have put tape ...

We talk to Axel Stoermann of drive maker Kioxia about the efficiencies and performance that flash storage can bring, but why hard disk drives are still a key choice in some use cases Continue Reading ...