Current day personal computers (or 'PCs') are vastly different to the early computers described here. The modern PC was made possible by the development of the microprocessor in the early 1970s.

At this time there was little or no notion that computers could or would be used by individuals for either work or recreation. Early computers stored data on punched card. Those that stored ...

IBM truly led the way throughout this decade, with its computing hardware accounting for over two-thirds of the early ...

Little did they realize how different that early computer was from the ones that would be built a mere fifty years later. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. John ...

Created by British-American software publisher and computer designer Adam Osborne, the Osborne 1 is recognized as the first commercially successful portable computer, shipping in April 1981 ...

The PC turbo button and LED clock speed display were common features on early personal computers. Wanting to add a little retro chic to his modern battle-station, [Matthew Frost] assembled a ...

Proving skeptics wrong, he shared a Nobel Prize in 2013 for using computers to better understand chemical reactions and biological processes. By Dylan Loeb McClain Martin Karplus, a Nobel Prize ...