The 37th annual Trenton Computer Festival will be held in Trenton, New Jersey tomorrow, March 10. If you haven't heard of TCF, you've missed one of the most influential computer events in computing ...

Hang on to your outdated Apple gadgets--and related design documentation, if you happen to own any. Early computers are increasingly fetching prices that rival those of contemporary art, at auction ...

Screenshot from an online emulator of 1985 edition of The Oregon Trail (Internet Archive) Back when I was playing these games on my family’s Apple IIc, they were often side-eyed by a generation that ...

The dawn of the computer age is now TV-ready. Early computer technology is having its moment in some of the best current dramas, which chart how we got here from there. We’re in the ruminating phase ...

On a crisp California afternoon in early December 1968, a square-jawed, mild-mannered Stanford researcher named Douglas Engelbart took the stage at San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium and proceeded to ...

When Sophia Westwood decided to take computer science as a freshman at Stanford, she knew she was running with a high-octane crowd: elite program, startup factory, genius classmates who had been ...

This past weekend, you relived the wonder of Jurassic Park and remembered the first time you saw convincing CG effects on screen. But Jurassic Park built on a long legacy of computer innovation, more ...

Dr. Henry Edward Roberts, a developer of an early personal computer that inspired Bill Gates to found Microsoft, died Thursday in Georgia. He was 68. Roberts, whose build-it-yourself kit concentrated ...

Early computer kits aimed at learning took all sorts of forms, from full-fledged computer kits like the Altair 8800 to the ready-made MicroBee Computer-In-A-Book. For those just wanting to dip their ...

When Sophia Westwood decided to take computer science as a freshman at Stanford, she knew she was running with a high-octane crowd: elite program, startup factory, genius classmates who had been ...