The Eighties are also remembered for the obsession many had with fitness and bodybuilding, at those times; and indeed the guy carrying his Osborne 1 “portable” microcomputer in this advertisement must ...

I stood at the thrift store looking at the electronic gadget. Decades earlier I’d purchased a used IBM 8088 desktop computer from the print shop that once occupied the same downtown space. I brought ...

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If you search the Internet for “Clone Wars,” you’ll get a lot of Star Wars-related pages. But the original Clone Wars took place a long time ago in a galaxy much nearer to ours, and it has a lot to do ...

The Osborne 1, the first laptop computer. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. In April 1981, the floor of the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco was crowded with hobbyist tinkerers, engineers and ...

When you consider that many people are likely reading this on a laptop today, the history of computers as portable machines is arguably not given much thought. However, the history of portable ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Return with me to the Glory Days of Windows XP, which apparently some people, somehow, are still using even though support for it ended in...2014. I don’t know whether to be amazed or horrified at how ...

Steve Jobs, dressed in a black double-breasted blazer and grey bow tie, stepped onto the auditorium stage at De Anza College in Cupertino on January 24, 1984 to introduce the Macintosh. I was sitting ...

With Maximum PC and MacLife’s abandonment of print, the dead-tree era of computer journalism is officially over. It lasted almost half a century—and was quite a run. I spent most of that time at PC ...

Charles Harrington Elster, a writer who turned a love of the English language into a career that included the public radio show “A Way With Words” and a dozen books about pronunciation, vocabulary and ...

The company that still owns Digital Research's CP/M operating system has granted a new, more permissive license for the eight-bit OS, making it free for anyone to modify or redistribute. For clarity, ...