IBM was a computer juggernaut in the late ... That’s just the kind of tidbit in this post, and if you have any interest in computer history of the 1980s, you’ll definitely want to check ...

By 1980 Apple has captured 50% of the personal computer market. In 1980 Microsoft is approached by IBM to develop BASIC for its personal computer project. The IBM PC is released in August ...

Campbell-Kelly and Aspray conclude in Computer: A History of the Information Machine ... Over time [the close relationships between IBM and its customers] became IBM’s most important platform ...

The IBM mainframe is the longest running computer family in history. Although current IBM mainframes are vastly superior in technology to the System/360, they are highly compatible with it.

A PC that is compatible with the IBM PC and PS/2 standards; essentially, every Windows PC on the market. This term is rarely heard anymore, but it was widely used in the early days when PC vendors ...

With the announcement of the System/360 and the debut of SABRE, IBM made some of the biggest waves in computer history thus ...

Before the Treo and the iPhone, the IBM WorkPad 20X was an early opportunity for many people to live with email, calendar, ...

The IBM PC used the Intel 8088 microprocessor ... The purpose of this nostalgic romp through history is to tell another part of that classic story and to draw a comparison to another disruptive ...

Early in the digital era, she worked at Bell Labs on the intersection of art and technology, making films and at one point ...

The IBM PC spawned the basic architecture that grew into the dominant Wintel platform we know today. Once heavy, cumbersome and power thirsty, it’s a machine that you can now emulate on a single ...

So IBM had to choose one of these guys to write the operating system for its new personal computer. One would hit the jackpot the other would be forgotten...a footnote in the history of the ...

Although quantum computing is a nascent field, there are plenty of key moments that defined it over the last few decades as ...