When the definitive history of the personal computer is written, familiar and historic names such as Olivetti, Apple, IBM, will all be given recognition for their innovations of the 1960s and 1970s.

You might think your computer is old, but that's nothing compared to these ancient relics. Two of the world's very first personal computers have been discovered during a house clearance in London. The ...

When Brenda Coffee married her charismatic boss Jon Philip Ray, 14 years her senior, the wide-eyed 21-year-old imagined an exciting future of love, wealth and shared adventures. She could barely ...

This is the first of two articles on TechCrunch in which I examine the Sinotype III, an experimental machine that was among the first personal computers to handle Chinese-language input and output.

During an era when the typical "small computer" with accessories could easily fill half a room and cost tens of thousands of dollars, an engineer named Ed Roberts (at his firm MITS) designed a desktop ...

There was a major problem, however, both for potential Chinese computer users and Western manufacturers: No Western-built personal computer, printer, monitor, operating system, program or otherwise ...