Back in the early years of the personal computer, “FloppyData” may not have been recognizable by itself. But looking back on ...

The computers mentioned were learning computers or home computers, not “Personal Computer” to my understanding. The KIM-1 was like a Sharp MZ-40K or a Sinclair ZX80.

In the early 1980s, the age of the personal computer had arrived and "computerphobia" was suddenly everywhere. Sufferers experienced "a range of resistances, fears, anxieties, and hostilities ...

Where We’ve Been: A Standalone Experience. By the late 1970s and into the 1980s, early personal computers, built by the likes of IBM, Xerox, Apple, Commodore, Hewlett-Packard and others, hit a ...

Visitors to the Geneva History Museum can interact with an exhibit that will take them back 40 years when personal computers were just coming onto the scene. Last year, an Apple IIe computer &#8211… ...

If you’re not a tech geek, you’re probably unaware that the vast majority of early personal computers and gaming systems from the late ‘70s and early ‘80s featured processors in the MOS ...

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 ...

Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc. and the man behind the first personal computer, the iPod, iPhone iPad and other innovations, has died at 56.

These early personal computers weren't much more than toys. You could play pong or simple shooting games, maybe do some word processing. And these toys were marketed almost entirely to men and boys.

Dr. Henry Edward Roberts, a developer of an early personal computer that inspired Bill Gates to found Microsoft, died Thursday in a hospital in Macon, Ga., after a long bout with pneumonia ...

Such is the story of Tandy and its TRS-80 Pocket Computer. Sold exclusively through Radio Shack, the TRS-80 was part of a a new generation of tiny, lightweight personal computers you could take on ...

But when personal computers began to appear in the 1970s, Mr. Warren jumped in. In his book, Mr. Markoff wrote that Mr. Warren was “emblematic of the cultural, political and technological forces ...