If you are interested in historical big computers, you probably think of IBM, with maybe a little thought of Sperry Rand or, if you go smaller, HP, DEC, and companies like Data General. But you ...

Throughout the history of computers, one aspect has plagued and restricted its growth more than any other: permanent storage. From the very first computers that used punched cards and tape for input ...

Ahead of Apple’s 50th anniversary, RR Auction is auctioning a trove of historic artifacts, including the first check written from the company’s original bank account.

It took nearly six months (and 1,600 hot glue gun sticks) for Arizona schoolkids to recreate the massive Army machine, which debuted in 1946.

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...

Philadelphia schoolchildren are drilled on the names of its accomplished citizens. William Penn. Benjamin Franklin. Betsy Ross. But during all the baby-boomer years I attended schools in the City of ...