History of Computers

Sharon Weinberger weighs up a history of PLATO, a prescient but doomed 1960s US computer network. (2017)

The real victor was Microsoft, which built an empire on the back of a shadily acquired MS-DOS. 7/31/2017: "This is the concluding part of the surpr... (2017)

IBM PC: The complete history, part 1 Bill Gates. Mysterious deaths. IBM trying to act like a nimble startup. This story has it all! JIMMY MAHER... (2017)

Unix was born in 1969 out of the mind of a computer scientist at Bell Laboratories, Ken Thompson... (2017)

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing | IEEE Computer Society By Lori Cameron and Michael Martinez “Now a researcher recovers this lost chapt... (2017)

When Neil Papworth sent the world's first text message 25 years ago, he had no idea what a big deal it was... "On Dec. 3, 1992, at the tender ag... (2017)

Vector Graphic became one of the best-known computer manufacturers of its era. It went public. Then the IBM PC changed everything. (2015)

The company has many reasons reason to go all-in on silicon. (2018)

The $100 OLPC laptop was supposed to revolutionize education and close the digital divide. But in just a few years it was recognized as a failure, ... (2018)

Alexandra Lange writes on Susan Kare, who designed the suite of icons that made the Macintosh revolutionary—a computer that you could communicate w... (2018)