Compaq took the wraps off its first product in November 1982, revealing the computing world's first true IBM PC clone, and an ...

The Book 8088 was a neat experiment, but as a clone of the original IBM PC, it was pretty limited in what it could do. Early MS-DOS apps and games worked fine, and the very first Windows versions ran… ...

Since the dawn of the PC market, most consumer users have been able to get by with the bare minimum of computing power. During the personal computer’s first two decades, that typically meant ...

Do you ever sit at your 1981 vintage IBM PC and get the urge to pop onto that newfangled ‘WWW’ to stay up to date on all the goings-on in the world? Fret not, because [Al’s Geek Lab] has you covered ...

Old parts such as EPROMs will often find themselves for sale on sites such as eBay, where they are sometimes snapped up by ...

Hope this is the right forum. Does anyone know where/how I can locate original colors for early IBM 5150/5160 PC cases? I have 3 to refinish as winter projects. Although I'd prefer to buy paint ...

Personal computers have never seemed more promising than in the early 1980s, when they began to enter American homes in large numbers and the whole idea of using a computer for entertainment, ...

A system from national rail operator, British Rail in 1975, used distributed computing and a 400km data network to track freight ...