(WDBJ) - On this day, 44 years ago, IBM introduced its first personal computer: the model 5150. The computer cost around $1500. It came with only two programs, one for spreadsheets and another for ...

Ironic considering, you know, their leaving the hardware game and everything. But back in 1968—before they were the biggest computer manufacturer in the world ...

The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...

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 ...

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 ...