The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long gone are the days of multiple components making up a single computer space, as the ...

By the late 1980s, IBM was no longer very influential: its OS/2 operating system and Micro Channel architecture were supposed to replace the PC, but fizzled. By the 1990s, Big Blue was making some ...

In the race to build a workable quantum computer — a dream at the intersection of advanced physics and computer science since ...

The Kishsaver IBM’s Model F keyboards look odd to the modern eye. Most keyboards from the 1970s and 1980s do as well. This was a time when keyboard layouts were in flux.

For me, my first computer purchase was an IBM PC, however... Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor Jan. 27, 2014 at 4:00 a.m. PT ...

IBM changed the world on Aug. 12, 1981, when it launched the 5150 personal computer. It was not the first to market -- Apple, RadioShack, and Commodore had created the first "trinity" of true PCs ...

Silicon Valley owes its might to front-line clean room workers such as James Moore and Alida Hernandez who worked for IBM in the 1970s and 1980s. Next week, a jury trial begins to determine ...

IBM now leads that segment of the industry with Rochester-created Blue Gene and Roadrunner machines. He points out the fastest in computer in 1999 was the size of a football field.

In the 1980s, IBM asked Gates if he could develop an operating system to run on the IBM personal computer. Gates bought prebuilt software and adapted it to the IBM PC.