In prior centuries, it was common practice to tie the operation of a program to a computer’s clock speed. As computers got faster and faster, the programs tied to that slower clock speed sometimes had ...

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There was a time when seeing an actual computer was a big deal. They were in air-conditioned rooms with raised floors and locked doors. Even at a university, you were likely only to get access to a ...

Photographer Mark Richards explores the beauty and complexity of the earliest computing machines. Manufactured by the Nippon Electric Company (NEC), the drum-based machine was one of the earliest ...

When Levi Maaia’s mother, a school teacher, brought home the Apple IIGS in the late ‘80s, to say it made a lasting impact is an understatement. He and his family used the computer far beyond its ...

In a world where millions of people carry a 1990s-grade supercomputer in their pockets, it’s fun to revisit tech from a time when a 1 megahertz machine on a desktop represented a significant leap ...

BOSTON (AP) — A vintage Apple computer signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak is being sold at auction. The Apple-1 set in motion the company that in June became the first publicly traded business ...