As auto exposure control became a reality on 35mm SLRs, just about every manufacture tried to make it as affordable as ...

The innovations of 1975 may seem rudimentary compared to a brand new iPhone, but when these devices first debuted, they shook ...

Invented by engineer Ted Hoff, Intel introduces the 4004, the first microprocessor, which contains more than 2,000 transistors. Before the microprocessor, machines that performed the same ...

It's almost poetic justice that a calculator design was the microprocessor's first home. Calculators, digital watches, and other consumer devices were at the vanguard of electronic applications in ...

Hardware hacker Dmitry Grinberg recently achieved what might sound impossible: booting Linux on the Intel 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor. With just 2,300 transistors and an ...

Though released in 1971, it was designed in 1970, so it predated the first microprocessor, meaning that it was built on an integrated circuit of transistor-transistor logic chips. It also didn't ...

Tech people had always lusted over the idea of owning a computer; the break-through that finally made personal ownership ...