[Mike] has gone back to the 1950s with this computer which uses vacuum tubes instead of transistors. The computer has an eight-bit architecture and features most of the components of any modern ...

With its bank of blinking lights and 6,000 manual switches, it looked like something we'd associate with a 1950s science fiction ... with helping to start the computer age, fueled the public's ...

When we talk about a “computer” today, we generally picture an electronic machine that can perform various kinds of mathematical operations, manage its program flow, move data from one place ...

Engelbart, often described as a visionary, was ahead of his time in an era (1950s and '60s) when a single computer could fill an entire room. Early prototypes of the mouse featured a rectangular ...

American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family. Marriage and children were part of the national agenda. And the Cold War was in part a culture war, with the American family at the ...