What is less discussed is how Unix became so popular. It’s hard for the younger generation to imagine now, but there used to ...

(The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA) The home of the largest collection of computer artifacts in the world, which includes thousands of hardware components, images, films and videos.

A single IMP connected to one computer wasn’t much of a network. So it was very exciting in September 1969 when IMP-1 was ...

Set in the heart of Silicon Valley, the Computer History Museum long cheered the developments around it. Now, it’s taking a more nuanced approach. Credit...By Loren Elliott For The New York ...

Clips from Woz's sneak peek tour, plus hear him reveal his first and favorite gadget, talk about the coming robo-pocalypse and foretell the iPhone's place as a future historical artifact.

the main exhibition area is about twice as large as that of Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum. First floor: The Basics of Communication and Calculation The main exhibit begins with ...

Women working as "computers" at NACA in 1949 gather air pressure readings. NASA Chou and others are working hard to change things. She has co-founded groups like Project Include that encourage ...

It was only when I became a technology writer some years later that I realized that my landlord had invented the computer. In the early 1940s John Presper “Pres” Eckert Jr. was a grad student ...

R obert McMordie's A technical history of Acorn Computers is a concise and occasionally darkly funny hypertext concerning the ...