This weekend, a video podcast showcased the MicroFrame computer used to demo QDOS to Bill Gates. Key players from Seattle Computer Products were interviewed about creating the first DOS and how it ...

On this day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a company called Micro-Soft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The two men had worked together before, as members of the Lakeside Programming group in ...

IBM Corp. today revealed its expected roadmap for building the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, which would enable scaling up quantum computing for real-world practical ...

On this day, August 12 in 1981, the biggest shake-up in the history of computing took place at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City: The IBM Personal Computer model 5150 was released. There was ...

Sources: Microsoft and CNET News.com staff research Two-plus decades have brought major changes to the PC industry. Here's a glimpse at some of the significant events: 1981 * IBM announces the 5150 PC ...

On this day in economic and financial history... The PC wars were largely over by 1987. IBM-- or, more precisely, IBM-compatible machines -- and Microsoft had won, thanks to standardization, clones, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The IBM PC was a milestone in ...

IBM is planning to build the largest quantum computer so far, by linking together smaller machines to create one with a recording-breaking number of quantum bits, or qubits. The firm’s first steps on ...