The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see ...

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

A 2,000-year-old loom found in a Chinese tomb may hold the key to the origins of computing.

Long before video games became something you downloaded or streamed, they existed as curiosities built by scientists who ...

At a low-key talk for a local professional society in 1964, computer scientist and chemist Gordon Moore laid out a prediction that would define the world of technology for more than 50 years. In the ...

When Basic Books Group president and publisher Lara Heimert told her mom that she was going to work at the Hachette division's flagship imprint, back in 2005, she was elated. "My mother said, Oh, they ...

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the internet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Moves to restore it began in 2017, with pilot training for teachers launched in 2022. The latest decision now makes History a permanent feature of Nigeria’s education system. The Federal Ministry of ...

Home Computer Archeology: Few early Microsoft products left as lasting a mark as 6502 BASIC. The interpreter introduced millions of people to computers and programming, shaping the next generation of ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

A Lady Writing (a cover letter) by Johannes Vermeer (1665) (edit Shari Flores/Hyperallergic, courtesy Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) Obtaining a computer science degree once seemed like ...