Two of the first-ever desktop computers have been found in storage boxes at Kingston University in London. A milestone in human achievement, the Q1 microprocessor computer was released more than ...

Commercial microcomputers (Apple, Commodore, Tandy, Sinclair, and Texas Instruments) appeared in 1977. Apple Computer introduced the first graphical interface with the Macintosh; Microsoft ...

As mainframe computers were displaced by less expensive microcomputers, computer-operated machines used to shape wood, aluminum, and other materials into precise shapes are being replaced by ...

If you had sat down with a musician in 1976 and told them the entire way they approach recording, tracking, and ultimately releasing music would be down to a single device, they’d scoff. The recording ...

Magnetic tape storage is something many of us will associate with 8-bit microcomputers or 1960s mainframe computers, but it still has a place in the modern data center for long-term backups. It ...

The World’s First Desktop Computer Heads to Auction Two rediscovered relics of electronics history are headed to the block later this month.

Two of the three last-known surviving Q1 microcomputers have resurfaced after they were last known to have been used by an oil drilling company in the 1970s.

Kyle Chayka writes about Laine Nooney’s book “The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal,” which is a history of the Apple II and early personal computers.

In February, the newly resurfaced microcomputers went on view in “ Creating the Everything Device: Showcasing the Machines That Built the Future,” an exhibition of vintage computers and gaming ...

Kareena Kapoor, celebrated for her Bollywood roles, once surprised everyone by enrolling in a Micro Computers course at Harvard University. She humoro ...