A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer. It could be programmed to follow instructions, she wrote in 1843. It could not just ...

Computers have a long and complex history, and they've been around far longer than the internet. In the past, computers were used to perform mathematical and logical tasks that were difficult for ...

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 ...

Google's Doodle is celebrating the Antikythera mechanism, which might just be the first computer. But it might not. The mechanism was found in 1902 – exactly 115 years ago – and the discovery changed ...

John Blankenbaker made the prototype of the Kenbak-1 personal computer in his garage When the definitive history of the personal computer is written, familiar and historic names such as Olivetti, ...

A British museum curator has built a working replica of a 2,000-year-old Greek machine that has been called the world's first computer. A dictionary-size assemblage of 37 interlocking dials crafted ...