Although electronic computers had been used by the military and businesses for many years, the first computers intended for hobbyists and home use did not appear commercially until the mid 1970s when ...

Computers began appearing in the home in the mid to late 1970s. Most of these first personal computers were kits assembled by hobbyists and engineers wanting a computer to do programming work at home ...

Jef Raskin was known as the "father of the Macintosh" for his early work designing what became Apple Computer Inc.'s signature product and the start of the personal computer revolution. But even in ...

In 1936, the British logician Alan Turing imagined a universal computing machine. In the wake of World War II, at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, a team of mathematicians and engineers built ...

Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge. silicon.com's Nick Heath talks to Hopper about the BBC Micro, ...

A New York-Historical Society exhibit on advancements in tech. It’s hard to believe that the cell phones that fit in our hands are more powerful than the early computers that once occupied entire ...

Well, it depends. While nowadays it is widely accepted that there are eight bits in a byte the bit-count in that computing fact was not always so settled. In the early days of computers there was ...

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 ...

Today's computers would not be possible without the immense amount of research and development that took place from the 1940s to the 1970s. Following are the major developments of those decades ...