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What was the first home computer? The Altair was the first mass-marketed personal computer. Made in 1974, it used Intel's ...
Computer scientist Alan Kay and novelist Bonnie MacBird have owned this Brentwood residence for more than 30 years, and now seek a new generation of owners.
The Xerox Alto computer system, introduced in 1973, was one of the first computers designed for individual use and is regarded as the first modern computer to take advantage of a mouse. Moving into ...
McCracken discovered that the computer’s software was not the cause of customer problems, but rather that the manufacturing of the machines was “uncharacteristically slipshod,” they added. However, ...
Here’s the 50-year-old Microsoft source code that inspired the first Apple computer To celebrate Microsoft's 50th anniversary, you can download a piece of PC history. By Roman Loyola ...
In this report, Derek Cooper investigates Europe's first home computer terminal. Installed into the home of industrial consultant Rex Malik (pictured here), it includes an electric typewriter and ...
The computer ENIAC with two operators. ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer. As a stand-alone device, it didn't support networking, although it facilitated a network of humans who used ...