Computers have been on something of a miraculous journey since the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) or 'Baby' ran its first program in Manchester in 1948. Here are just some of the highlights, ...

We often think that computers close computerA device that processes information by following a set of rules called a program. and computing devices are really clever. Sometimes we think they are more ...

The PC; the personal computer; the IBM-compatible. Whatever you want to call it, somehow it has maintained a dominant presence for nearly four decades. If you try to launch any program written from ...

In the early days of computerization, storage space was a valuable commodity. The U.S. company Syncronys, led by German ...

Fifty-seven years ago, a computer at UCLA tried to send the word "LOGIN" to a machine at Stanford. It managed two letters ...