The history of computers, and especially of what became the personal computer, is one of those topics that is extremely complicated to nail down. With the development of the silicon chip, the already ...
Vintage computer historians have long revered the Altair 8800. But an unknown computer project at Sacramento State beat the Altair by three years. CNET got a look at it. An artist’s 3D rendering of ...
Two of the world's earliest microcomputers, the Q1 models, have resurfaced from storage boxes at Kingston University in London, shedding light on the formative years of computing. The Q1 ...
From the October, 1979 issue of High Times comes Francis X. Kirby’s “How To Buy A Brain For $2,500 Or Less.” Tiny computers are here to stay. These shiny little miracles of machine intelligence are ...
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Prehistories of the personal -- Cultivating the Apple II -- Business : VisiCalc -- Games : Mystery House -- Utilities : Locksmith -- Home : The Print Shop -- Education : Snooper Troops -- ...