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 ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - This year will likely be the first year that laptop PC sales will outstrip those of desktop PCs. Here are some landmark dates in the history of personal computers which evolved from ...

We asked Orange Park computer historian David Greelish, who recently made a documentary on Apple's old Lisa computer, to give us a timeline on the development of personal computers, listing specific ...

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, said in the 1970s most people thought only big companies would ever want to use computers. August 11, 1950: Born in San Jose, California. 1971: Meets Steve Jobs ...

The Apple-1 Computer was developed and conceived by Steve Jobs and Steve 'Woz' Wozniak in the mid-1970s as a complete hobbyist kit. It was also one of the first 'personal computers' you could buy, as ...

It cost $18,000 when it was introduced in 1965, but it bridged the world between room-size mainframes and the modern desktop. By Glenn Rifkin C. Gordon Bell, a technology visionary whose computer ...

Thirty-five years ago, on April 16 and 17, 1977, more than twelve thousand proto-geeks flooded into San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium. They were there to attend a new event called the West Coast ...

We named it the personal computer. Somewhere along the way, “personal” came to mean “logged into five accounts and re-setting the same preferences on every screen.” That gap, between devices we own ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CTA (Consumer Technology Association), which started out as the RMA (Radio Manufacturers Association). This is the fifth in a series of ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You might think that technology from 50 years ago was all very mundane, and there's truth to that, at least compared to the most exciting new ...

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, said in the 1970s most people thought only big companies would ever want to use computers. What changed minds back then was something familiar to 2015 — the killer ...