What do the HP-1000 and the DEC VAX 11/730 have in common with the video games Tempest and Battlezone? More than you might think. All of those machines, along with many others from that time period, ...
Michael Dell revolutionized the computer industry by selling custom-made PCs directly to consumers, bypassing retailers. This ...
Machine Shop columnist Simson Garfinkel looks at the surprising challenges of securing the OLPC project's low-cost computer for kids in developing nations The $100 laptop designed for the children of ...
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, short ...
No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...