“The freshmen now entering Drexel [in the early 1980s] will spend the greater portion of their professional lives in the 21st century, in an environment in which the computer will be an everyday, even ...

Throughout the history of computers, one aspect has plagued and restricted its growth more than any other: permanent storage. From the very first computers that used punched cards and tape for input ...

A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi is a must-read for investors, entrepreneurs, executives, and anyone interested in understanding the technology that is embedded in ...

Introduction -- Film and television at the dawn of the digital revolution -- Analog dreams : bohemians, beatniks, and the Whitneys -- Spook work : the government and the military -- Academia -- Xerox ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Monticello Memoirs Program captured for posterity the story of the information technology revolution in the words of the men and women who are ...

A decade before Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, a tiny team of renegades attempted to build the modern smartphone. Nearly forgotten by history, a little startup called Handspring tried to make the ...

Those beige boxes were secretly the best classrooms money could buy.

One of my absolute favorite parts of my personal gaming history is when I discovered the world of PC games. I’m talking about MS-DOS titles, well before Windows was a thing. Before the days of in-app ...