Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal

For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as effortless sounding as the Hour of ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

IBM introduced its first personal computer 40 years ago

International Business Machines Corp. announced its long-expected entry into the personal computer market with an expandable system priced from $1,565 to about $6,000. But don’t rush to the nearest ...
Network World

The non-personal computer

One of the concepts I stressed during my speeches at the recent ITEC conferences surprised many people: stop calling computers “personal” computers. Changing that attitude will lower your hassle ...
The Florida Times-Union

Computer historian from Clay County lists landmark devices: Perhaps you had one?

We asked Orange Park computer historian David Greelish, who recently made a documentary on Apple's old Lisa computer, to give us a timeline on the development of personal computers, listing specific ...
PC World

9 awesome photos of school computer labs from the 1980s

The dawn of the personal computer in the 1970s promised the greatest change in American instructional methods since the 19th century—which is when schools began to use standardized textbooks. While ...
EDN

NXP’s Personal computer block diagram

In addition to a legacy analog audio video interfaces, for which NXP offers high-bandwidth switches and audio converters, today’s personal computers and notebooks include a HDMI output interface for ...