The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long gone are the days of multiple components making up a single computer space ...

While the fulfillment of the personal computer’s educational promise is debatable, the machines’ commercial impact on education is not: During the 1980s, public school systems and universities ...

They graduated into building S-100 bus computers. Like many similar companies, they could taste the upcoming home PC market, and they wanted a piece of it. Their answer? The $1,800 C-10 Cromemco ...

To celebrate the 40th birthday of the Apple Lisa computer, the Computer History Museum (CHM) has released the source code for the first graphical user interface computer. The CHM has gained ...

In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, if someone wanted to buy a personal computer, they had to make a trip down to a local computer store to physically check out what was available.

and Macs, many British software developers today owe their programming heritage to these pioneering machines. The 1980s truly were a golden era for the personal computer industry.

as well as the home computer revolution that was taking place at the same time. We've compiled several news stories – mostly from the early 1980s – that capture a snapshot of the dawn of the ...

This computer is manufactured of all-new parts but runs on a version of the 6502 microprocessor that powered so many of the 8-bit devices of the eighties, from the Nintendo Entertainment System to ...