Way back at Morristown High School, around '69, we got an old IBM 1620. It was focused on scientific computation, in contrast to the 1133. Lots of blinking lights and code that allowed very primitive ...

Inspired by A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi. But the selection of key events in the journey from ENIAC to Tesla, from Data Processing to Big Data, is mine. This ...

A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer. It could be programmed to follow instructions, she wrote in 1843. It could not just ...

The computer industry is forever looking for highly skilled individuals who can work in maths and data and have a grounding in computing. The latest GCSE results show that 33.6% of this year’s ...

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, recently held a diversity in tech panel. Following the event, Computer Weekly asked some of the panellists about their first computers and their first experiences ...

I too got a TI 99/4A for Christmas, but I actually had no idea the thing could play games. Or if I did, there was no budget for them - so I was stuck at the Basic prompt. I also hadn't a clue that one ...

1982: Programming in BASIC, playing TI Invaders My first home computer was a Texas Instruments 99/4A. We didn’t have a monitor (we hooked it up to our television set) and there was no disk drive.

BOISE, Idaho — Most people these days walk around with a personal computer in their purse, or pocket, or in their hands. Computers have come a long way and gotten quite a bit smaller than they used to ...