Other kit computers came along in 1974 like the Scelbi-8H, a kit based on Intel’s first 8-bit micro the 8008. Also in 1974, Radio-Electronics magazine published an article on the Mark-8 a ...

The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But ...

.. .. .. >> The History of Personal Computers. If you read my Part 1 blog, you know that I developed a computer kit for McGraw Hill/NRI back in 1972. I left MH in 1973 to go to the Heath Company.

* 1981: The Osborne 1, the first commercially available portable personal computer, is launched with a 5" monitor. The computer weighed 23.5 pounds and cost $1,800.

The Surface Studio is likely to be the most controversial pick on this list. It’s also by far the newest computer, debuting in late 2016, with a successor, the Surface Studio 2, coming along two ...

The institute also has on hand tape-recorded interviews with about 150 significant figures in the history of computers, among them Tom Watson Jr., chairman of the board of International Business ...

The x86's lineage can be traced back to 1968, to a design on a napkin drawn by Austin O. "Gus" Roche, an all-but-forgotten engineer in San Antonio who was obsessed with creating a personal computer.

January 30, 2019; Computers Were Supposed to Be Good Computers Were Supposed to Be Good Joy Lisi Rankin’s book on the history of personal computing looks at the technology’s forgotten ...

Image via Wikipedia Personal computers have come a long way since the first household PCs were developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Today, technology is more mobile than anyone could have ...

add_main_imageTaipei: This year will likely be the first year that laptop PC sales will outstrip those of desktop PCs. Here are some landmark dates in the history of personal computers which ...