In February 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were about to unveil, for the first time, an electronic computer to the world. Their ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could ...

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when I mention the word “computer”? You are probably thinking of the various systems that you have worked with, be it desktop computers or laptops. But I ...

Isolated from the rest of the world, one woman pushed computing from a geeky obsession into a transformative industry. In April 1960, China’s first home-grown electronic digital general purpose ...

Britain's hush hush Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) intelligence and security organization has released new images never before made public of Colossus, the world's first digital ...

The latest in our series of early technologies from Michael Bennett-Levy’s collection looks at the world’s first commercial business computer, the LEO II/3. The LEO II (short for Lyons Electronic ...

The floppy disk version of "The Computer Glossary," the origin of this encyclopedia. Long gone with the demise of floppies, Electronic Computer Glossary came out first for DOS in 1990 and then Windows ...

This gallery is part of the What Computer Had the Biggest Impact on You? series. Also, read more articles in the 70th Anniversary issue. I received lots of feedback about the first computer you used, ...

IBM has unveiled a prototype of a new brain-inspired computer powered by what it calls "electronic blood". The firm says it is learning from nature by building computers fuelled and cooled by a liquid ...