The PC; the personal computer; the IBM-compatible. Whatever you want to call it, somehow it has maintained a dominant presence for nearly four decades. If you try to launch any program written ...

The secret history of the PC Written by Pia Heikkila, Contributor Aug. 10, 2001 at 2:00 a.m. PT Twenty years ago a desktop device was launched to help companies process menial business tasks.

25 PC Games That Changed History. When trying to name the most important PC games of all-time, though, it’s not only about innovation and who came first.

The very first PC Gaming Show took place in June of 2015. At the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles, host Sean "Day[9]" Plott welcomed guests including Microsoft's Phil Spencer, Dean Hall of DayZ fame ...

Unlike today’s platforms where most or all of the online players for a particular PC game connect via Steam or an in-game browser, MPlayer, Heat.net, GameSpy, and later platforms often serviced ...

A Brief History of Computer Displays. From blinking lights and punch cards to LCDs and 3D flat panels, we trace the 70-year history of the tech that users rely on to see what a computer is doing.

While we wait these last few days until the iPad's big release, we've decided to trace the long lineage of tablet PCs. From the earliest tablet input devices and concept sketches to the most ...

The computer itself was vast -- about 30 feet by 50 feet (9m x 15m) -- and the storage device itself, the very first commercial hard disk drive, was a 1.5-meter cube.

MY OLD FRIEND Dudley is an accomplished lawyer, gourmet cook, world traveler, raconteur and an enthusiastic, if not technically oriented computer user. He also tries to solve problems himself befor… ...

IBM promised a home machine with PC compatibility, improved graphics and sound and a lower price of $1,269. Consumers adored the wireless keyboard, and it was IBM, the king of computing.