Max Shulaker with Cedric, the first carbon computer: "There is no limit to the tasks it can perform". The first computer built entirely with carbon nanotubes has been unveiled, opening the door to a ...

The question of who invented the first computer and when was the computer invented has a complex answer that spans centuries of innovation. Many people assume a single inventor and a specific date, ...

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, recently held a diversity in tech panel. Following the event, Computer Weekly asked some of the panellists about their first computers and their first experiences ...

The ultra-rare Apple 1 is a piece of computing history, and goes on sale in September APPLE’S first computer has gone up for auction – and could fetch as much as £470,000. The extremely rare Apple 1 ...

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, ...

WORLD WAR II code-breaker and unsung hero Alan Turing is now on the Bank of England’s newly-designed £50 note. Many people know about Turing’s work that helped to win WWII but a lot of his other world ...

Seventy years ago was arguably the start of the modern computer age. A machine that took up an entire room at a laboratory in Manchester University ran its first program at 11am on 21 June 1948. The ...

The LEO was the first computer used for commercial business applications It was a British tea shop and catering chain that developed the first computer for business use. Since then, the computer has ...

Way back at Morristown High School, around '69, we got an old IBM 1620. It was focused on scientific computation, in contrast to the 1133. Lots of blinking lights and code that allowed very primitive ...