Unlike other personal computers of its year ... revolutionary machine that remains an iconic piece of computing history and design approaching 40 years later. It took Apple a few more iterations ...

Over the next few weeks we'll be taking an extensive look at the history of the microprocessor and the personal computer, from the invention of the transistor to modern day chips powering a ...

The driving force behind this invention was (as usual) the personal need for a better ... the two greatest persons in the history of computers and computing, because only they manage to anticipate ...

The personal computer industry began in 1977, when Apple, Radio Shack and Commodore introduced off-the-shelf computers as consumer products. Known as the "1977 Trinity," the Apple II, Radio Shack ...

Kirschenbaum's book "Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing" (Harvard University Press, 2016). 1981: "Acorn," IBM's first personal computer, is released onto the market at a price ...

IBM's original plan had been to design the personal computer around Motorola's 6800 ... IBM's Boca Raton development laboratory, despite IBM's history of designing its processors in-house.

CTC’s TTL-based desktop personal computer ... Frassanito recalled. The Computer History Museum interviewees said that it was inadvertently sabotaged when TI used an initial specification ...