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 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.

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 ...

In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc ...