It's difficult to define the first model of laptop computer. This is partially due to different definitions for what a laptop actually is. Some simply define a laptop as a small portable personal ...

The mainframe has been written off more than once, yet it remains stubbornly central to how the world’s largest organisations run. On IBM’s own reckoning, it sits behind 87% of all transactions ...

It’s difficult to imagine a modern office without computers of some kind — desktop PCs, notebooks, tablets and smartphones litter workplaces across the country and the world. But in the early 1970s, ...

IBM mainframe computers often fill entire rooms, but the company says its latest innovation puts “nearly 100 billion transistors on to a chip the size of a fingernail”. The US technology giant ...

I haven't made any kind of systematic search or survey, but happened to see the following films that contain sequences of authentic 1940s, 50s, or 60s (or earlier) punched-card or other computing ...

The Altair 8800 lit the fuse, but Apple's 1977 device made home computing irresistible to the masses. Here's a look back as Apple turns 50. I'm the Executive Editor, Features & Special Projects at ...

January 2, 1979: Entrepreneurs Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston incorporate their company Software Arts to publish a program called VisiCalc. The first spreadsheet software for the Apple II, VisiCalc ...

NPR's series Cost of Living: The Price We Pay is examining what's driving price increases and how people are coping after years of stubborn inflation. How are higher prices changing the way you live?

Archive director Gregor Spuhler will retire at the end of this year after 18 years. His successor is now known: Daniela Zetti will take over the management of the Archives of Contemporary History from ...