IBM was a big player in the early days of personal computing. In 1981, IBM introduced the "PC," followed by the PC-XT in 1983 ...

When thinking of the first PCs, most of us might imagine something like the Apple I or the TRS-80. But even before that, there were a set of computers that often had no keyboard, or recognizable ...

In March 1975, The Eagles' Best of My Love, was the number one song, the top box office movie was The Godfather Part II, and All in the Family was the most popular TV show. However, I was most excited ...

A rare, operational Apple-1 Computer was recently put up for auction, and it ended up selling for $375,000. The Apple-1 was the first computer sold by Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, ...

Long before Hinge or Tinder, early computing took finding your perfect match to a new level. Associate Professor of Data Science Mar Hicks, and author of "Computer Love: Replicating Social Order ...

One of my absolute favorite parts of my personal gaming history is when I discovered the world of PC games. I’m talking about MS-DOS titles, well before Windows was a thing. Before the days of in-app ...

In that spirit, we asked several Computerworld editors to share stories of their first PCs. While most of us joined the ranks of PC owners during the ’80s, one editor didn’t buy his first computer ...

The invention of the computer is often articulated like a three-act play: the idea of the computer arrives, then there is the process of how to make the computer and, finally, there is the creation.