The Altair 8800 lit the fuse, but Apple's 1977 device made home computing irresistible to the masses. Here's a look back as Apple turns 50.

When thinking of the first PCs, most of us might imagine something like the Apple I or the TRS-80. But even before that, there were a set of computers that often had no keyboard, or recognizable ...

On this day, August 12 in 1981, the biggest shake-up in the history of computing took place at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City: The IBM Personal Computer model 5150 was released. There was ...