We’ve read a number of histories of the IBM PC and lived through that time, too. But we enjoyed [Gareth Edwards’] perspective in a post entitled The Misfit who Built the IBM PC. The titular character ...

If you've ever looked over at one of the terminals a Costco employee is using, you may be wondering why it looks like ...

It wasn’t long ago I was nostalgic about an old computer I saw back in the 1980s from HP. It was sort of an early attempt at a PC, although price-wise it was only in reach for professionals. HP wasn’t ...

Y'see, without that clock, the computer wouldn't boot. You're a bit later in the progression, then; the IBM PC had no clock battery and you had to manually set the clock on boot. There were a number ...

The widely expected deal, one of the biggest Chinese overseas acquisitions ever, would make Lenovo the third-largest PC company in the world. IBM currently holds that spot. The sale extends IBM's long ...

IBM’s personal computer division racked up $965 million in losses between Jan. 1, 2001, and June 30, 2004, the company said last week in a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in ...

The IBM PC-AT was introduced in 1984. The "AT" stood for "advanced technology." The machine was the first upgrade from IBMs original PC architecture introduced in 1981 (the XT expanded storage options ...