Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data in 1971 to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems. 1972: Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel ...

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

Babbage's next idea is the Analytical Engine - a mechanical computer that can solve any mathematical problem. It uses punch-cards similar to those used by the Jacquard loom and can perform simple ...

In the 1940s, those mathematicians were chiefly women—the overlooked workers who helped launch the field of computer science. [ Related: The fascinating, rocky history of the ubiquitous Xerox ...

The first low-cost home computer was launched by Sinclair Research on 1981. This innovation made way for computers to not ...

By partnering with Margot Lee Shetterly and the Human Computer Project, the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum is ...

It was the first computer to have a microprogrammed control unit and a bit slice hardware architecture. A unit can be seen at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. Here, an IBM storage ...

(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.