It was the dawn of the personal computer age, a time when Apple IIs, Tandy TRS-80s, Commodore PETs, the Atari 400 and 800, and others had made significant inroads into schools and people’s homes. But ...

You can now play classic DOS games on your Mac in your browser, thanks to the online service DOS_deck. Here's how to use it. At the dawn of the personal computer era ...

It's not every day that you stumble on a website powered by hardware that pre-dates the dial-up modem era of the internet, but that's exactly what's happening over at Brutmans Lab. It's a site ...

The IBM PC was an also-ran in computer gaming until the late 1980s, when MS-DOS suddenly and forcefully found its footing. A new book from Jamie Lendino covers a vital and defining period in PC gaming ...

The landmark personal computer, introduced by IBM 30 years ago Friday, launched the PC revolution, changing the way people work, communicate, and play. Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer, works from ...

PC-DOS or MS DOS version 2.0 or later. Text editor capable of producing a generic ASCII file. Hard disk strongly recommended. Printer support: Drivers can be purchased separately or bundled with the ...

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How was DOS part of the PC revolution? Is DOS still around? What did Bill write a long time ago? Remember the DOS prompt? DOS stands for disk operating system. The latest announcement is a blast from ...

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… ...

AI-powered chatbots are clearly the future of computing, and it’s only a matter of time before you’ll see them appear on every internet-connected gadget. If you thought you were safe from this by ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor IBM’s first PC, announced on August 12, 1981, was far from the first personal computer–but when it arrived, there was near-universal agreement that it was likely to be a landmark ...

WTF?! OpenAI's ChatGPT may represent the bleeding edge of artificial intelligence technology, but the end user's experience with it is little more than text and networking. One modder decided that, ...