In November 1970 a patent was granted for a device dubbed an “X-Y position indicator for a display system”.

PC vendors continued to introduce lighter and thinner laptops to the marketplace in 2016, while still making improvements in processing power, battery life, and screen display. One popular consumer ...

The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...

SEQUIM — Members of the Sequim PC Users Group have an abundance of refurbished desktop computers and are looking for people who need them. “It’s a good position to be in — we just need people to give ...

Wandering around STARTUP: Albuquerque and the Personal Computer Revolution, at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, I found myself caught between two moments, worlds apart in time and ...

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 ...

WHEN A FEW OF HIS employees in the IS department at Sunrise, Fla.-based Ursus Telecom Corp. started trading an episode of the bawdy comedy South Park using Napster, the popular file-sharing ...

Right now, the pace of transformation in the drone and mobile robotics industry is nothing short of thrilling. As different, broad technological trends mature—including cloud and edge computing, ...

When it comes to determining new and upcoming technologies, the industry looks not just to unit sales, but to the sales of the components that make up an electronic device. New reports indicate that, ...

Today, a brand-new computer costs just a few hundred dollars and has capabilities that in 1972 were in the realm of science fiction. The advent of the personal computer is one of the most important ...

Once wildly expensive and inaccessible but to the very rich, computers today are one of the most ubiquitous technologies worldwide. The most basic model of an HP 3000 sold for $95,000 in 1972, the ...