In April 1981, the floor of the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco was crowded with hobbyist tinkerers, engineers and ...

The first "laptop" computer I ever carried was a Zenith that weighed in at 14 pounds and was designed to test the stamina of anyone who tried to race the length of an airport with five minutes to make ...

Home computers have come a long way since the ’70s, progressing from simple-text-based CRT monitors to full-colour 3D graphics, hi-res LCD screens, and hundreds of times more processing power in a ...

How do you tell if a new technology product is a brilliant breakthrough? Listening to its creators doesn’t work: Tech companies have an annoying tendency to promote everything as a brilliant ...

Remember the first laptops? They were weird. Ancient laptops were often as large as desktop computers but only had tiny screens that could only display a few dozen characters. Over time, progress ...