Lydon Thorpe, a 27-year-old resident of Brooklyn, shows why the personal computer became the hottest gadget of the 2020s. He owns a smartphone, a tablet with a stylus, a handheld video game console ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - This year will likely be the first year that laptop PC sales will outstrip those of desktop PCs. Here are some landmark dates in the history of personal computers which evolved from ...

When the Mac arrived in 1984, it introduced a new way to use computers—visual, intuitive, and accessible. On Apple's 50th, we look back in awe at the entire line.

When thinking of the first PCs, most of us might imagine something like the Apple I or the TRS-80. But even before that, there were a set of computers that often had no keyboard, or recognizable ...

The computer is as emblematic of the American dream as the automobile. Perhaps it’s only natural that Apple, HP, Adobe, Google, and Amazon were each launched out of a garage. It was inside the garage ...

Prehistories of the personal -- Cultivating the Apple II -- Business : VisiCalc -- Games : Mystery House -- Utilities : Locksmith -- Home : The Print Shop -- Education : Snooper Troops -- ...

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 ...