CHICAGO (AP) – William C. Lowe had a bold idea: IBM should develop a personal computer that could be mass marketed, expanding the company’s reach beyond businesses and into people’s homes. That was in ...

Robert Dennard, an engineer at IBM whose invention of dynamic random access memory — DRAM — in the late 1960s made possible personal computers, mobile phones, tablets and video game players, has died.

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 ...

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The IBM PC-AT was introduced in 1984. The "AT" stood for "advanced technology." The machine was the first upgrade from IBMs original PC architecture introduced in 1981 (the XT expanded storage options ...

The 1980s were a great decade, especially for groundbreaking tech innovations. It gave us consumer electronics like the Sony Walkman, compact discs, and mobile phones, and also introduced medical ...

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On this day in 1981, IBM (NYSE: IBM) launched its IBM Personal Computer. Where The ...

It was the classic battle of man versus machine. On May 3, 1997, world chess champion Garry Kasparov faced off with IBM’s (IBM) Deep Blue supercomputer in New York City. Kasparov, a Russian chess ...

Back when computers were harder to come by, and regularly banished to the ubiquitous computer room if they were in the home at all, they had a few features that can seem a little tricky to place the ...