The First Personal Computer In the mid-1970s, Xerox developed the Alto, which was the forerunner of its Star workstation and inspiration for Apple's Lisa and Mac. (Image courtesy of Xerox ...

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 ...

IMSAI 8080 (first clone computer, of the Altair), 1975 Processor Technology Sol-20 (first primitive BIOS, or basic input/output system), 1976 First true consumer computers (“out of the box ...

Sept. 2, 2009— -- The Internet is officially over the hill. Though it might try to hide its graying hairs, it was 40 years ago today that computer scientists at the University of California ...

Malware—viruses, worms, Trojan horses and the like—has been around about as long as the first networked computers. In fact, 2011 is the 40th anniversary of the first known computer virus, a ...

Apple is currently celebrating the 30th birthday of the Mac computer. That will probably make some of you feel old. The first Macintosh computer debuted in 1984 with what Apple calls the "computer ...

In February 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were about to unveil, for the first time, an electronic computer to the world. Their ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ...