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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. When I started using a computer in the mid-1970s, it was on a ...

Lydon Thorpe, a 27-year-old resident of Brooklyn, shows why the personal computer became the hottest gadget of the 2020s. He owns a smartphone, a tablet with a stylus, a handheld video game console ...

The personal computer has been around in some form for another since the release of John Blankenbaker's Kenbak-1 in 1971. However, it wasn't until 1975 that the PC hit the consumer market with the ...

Smartphones boggle my mind a whole lot – they’re pocket computers, with heaps of power to spare, and yet they feel like the furthest from it. As far as personal computers go, smartphones are ...

But when VisiCalc for the Apple II appeared in 1979, the personal computer outgrew the garage and got down to business. Two years later, IBM unveiled its PC; before long, putty-colored boxes were as ...

If your computer is getting long-in-the-tooth but you can't make room for upgrades in your budget, these easy-to-use tools ...