Set up in partnership with the Bletchley Park Trust the museum aims to become a showcase that will let visitors stroll through the history of early computers. "I cannot think of a better place than ...

Taschen delves into the rich visual history of the computer with this new XL-scale book, edited by graphic designers and historians Jens Müller and Julius Wiedemann. Casting its net back into the ...

Designed to take advantage of the high-speed laser printers that Xerox was developing, the Alto was never released commercially. Xerox saw a future of desktop home computers with their electronic ...

With Apple’s 50th anniversary fast approaching, the Computer History Museum is planning a series of programs and a temporary exhibit to celebrate the company’s history. Here are the details. The ...

An event celebrating the Amiga's 30th birthday is gearing up to show off rare prototype versions of Commodore's iconic computer over the weekend. Hosted at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, ...

The history of computers is composed of an ever-growing number of consumer electronics devices, from game consoles to smartphones to music players, and the Computer History Museum's expansive catalog ...

A computer that processes analog data is known as an analog computer. Analog computers store information in physical quantities in a continuous format and use measurements to perform computation.

The inventor of the computer mouse, Doug Engelbart, has died aged 88. Engelbart developed the tool in the 1960s as a wooden shell covering two metal wheels, patenting it long before the mouse's ...

The story of how the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park aided the allied code-cracking effort during World War II is becoming well known. Its claim to be a forerunner of modern-day computers is also ...