Here's a new version of Jingle Bells you won't hear played in malls, and it's courtesy of one of the oldest computers in history. Turing archive director Jack Copeland and composer Jason Long have ...

Seventy years ago Thursday, IBM presented Harvard University with one of its earliest computers — the Harvard Mark 1, otherwise known as IBM's Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC). The Mark ...

A recent dig around in the BBC’s archives has resulted in an unexpected find: recordings made in 1951 of a Ferranti Mark 1 computer playing tunes. Predating what was thought previously to be the first ...

Newly-discovered acetate recordings of one of the first computers in the world playing music may cause the history of videogame music to be revised. A Ferranti Mark 1 computer in Manchester, England ...

Grace Hopper worked on early room-size computers, creating COBOL language. Dec. 9, 2013— -- In an age of smartphones and tablets, it can be hard to imagine a time when the typical computer ...

Over time computers have gotten smaller and smaller. (The first computer nearly took up a whole room.) Note the difference in size between the Harvard Mark 1 Computer of the 1940s and Intel's ...