Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully ...

Computer scientist Alan Kay who pioneered the personal computer has listed his Los Angeles home of 30 years for $7 million. Alan Kay, who’s been referred to as one of the “fathers of the personal ...

One of the concepts I stressed during my speeches at the recent ITEC conferences surprised many people: stop calling computers “personal” computers. Changing that attitude will lower your hassle ...

We asked Orange Park computer historian David Greelish, who recently made a documentary on Apple's old Lisa computer, to give us a timeline on the development of personal computers, listing specific ...

THINK about the last time you used your mobile phone. Was it to make a traditional voice call? Or was it to balance your ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. When I started using a computer in the mid-1970s, it was on a ...

International Business Machines Corp. announced its long-expected entry into the personal computer market with an expandable system priced from $1,565 to about $6,000. But don’t rush to the nearest ...

I went to Lenovo Accelerate last week and feasted my eyes on one of the most innovative PCs I’ve ever seen. However, as I absorbed the rest of Lenovo’s announcements, I realized I was looking at just ...

I'm not sure if this is the best forum for this, but I thought people on ARS might have an opinion... As a work from independent contractor, largely on open source my home office consists of one well ...