The first piece of technology that I could call my own was a 13-inch Acer Chromebook. I won it in a raffle at the school fair during fifth grade. The fair had raffles every year, but the prizes were ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES -- My first writing implement was a piece of chalk with which I scribbled a series of shapes that, according to my parents, spelled my first name. I was 2. My father took a photograph and ...

Rony Sebok got a job at Apple straight out of Harvard in 1983 working on the Mac team. She worked with a small team of software engineers under the direction of Steve Jobs. Sebok said Jobs was a ...

Some Computerworld bloggers have been telling tales of their first computers. I figured I’d throw mine into the pool here… The year was 1984, I was 11 years old and baseball cards were rapidly fading ...

1982: Programming in BASIC, playing TI Invaders My first home computer was a Texas Instruments 99/4A. We didn’t have a monitor (we hooked it up to our television set) and there was no disk drive.

<i> Forgive me Woz, for I have sinned...<br><br>Its been almost 20 years since I last used an Apple.<br><br>I have sold my soul to the unspeakable one from Redmond and turned my back on your creation.

You may not have noticed if you're a little younger, but computers these days are just so quiet—not that I really have a complaint about that. Silent computers are better for concentration or to enjoy ...