The first computer didn’t show up looking like anything we’d call a computer now. There was no screen, no keyboard, no mouse, ...

In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century before the first computer was even built. This almost sounds like a myth, or the ...

A rare, operational Apple-1 Computer was recently put up for auction, and it ended up selling for $375,000. The Apple-1 was the first computer sold by Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - This year will likely be the first year that laptop PC sales will outstrip those of desktop PCs. Here are some landmark dates in the history of personal computers which evolved from ...

Ada Lovelace’s wisdom about the first general-purpose computer can be found buried in the appendix of another paper Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, better known as Ada Lovelace, was ...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- One of the most important pieces of computing history can be found inside a classroom in Pennsylvania. Inside the Moore Building on the University of Pennsylvania's ...

BOISE, Idaho — Most people these days walk around with a personal computer in their purse, or pocket, or in their hands. Computers have come a long way and gotten quite a bit smaller than they used to ...