Tucked away 90 feet underground lay thousands of records in a unique collection at the University. The collection tells the history of one of the most remarkable advances in human civilization – ...

October 1983 Acorn Computers engineers start development of the Acorn RISC Machine (ARM) which is today’s most widely used processor architecture, powering the vast majority of smartphones and ...

The development of the personal computer was iterative and contingent; it was not a matter of destiny but of experimentation in many different directions at once.

The invention of the computer is often articulated like a three-act play: the idea of the computer arrives, then there is the process of how to make the computer and, finally, there is the creation.

This program is first concerned with the history of computer development from the first mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal in the Seventeenth Century to ENIAC, the first completely ...

Here are some landmark dates in the history of personal computers which evolved from heavy desktop computers in the 1970s to the light-weight laptops introduced over the past few years: ...