Way back at Morristown High School, around '69, we got an old IBM 1620. It was focused on scientific computation, in contrast to the 1133. Lots of blinking lights and code that allowed very primitive ...

I am building my first computer this summer. I don't really know much at all other than what I have read online in the past month or so. I have decided I like to spend around $1500 but that is just my ...

I've finally taken the plunge on building my own computer from scratch. I've done several amounts of upgrading my hardware but i've never built a computer from scratch.<P>The reason for this post is ...

The first piece of technology that I could call my own was a 13-inch Acer Chromebook. I won it in a raffle at the school fair during fifth grade. The fair had raffles every year, but the prizes were ...

1982: Programming in BASIC, playing TI Invaders My first home computer was a Texas Instruments 99/4A. We didn’t have a monitor (we hooked it up to our television set) and there was no disk drive.

a 3-petahertz PC in your future? CNET News.com explores the Web. Punched paper tape was the main form of data input, and the operator console was an electric typewriter. No screens, no cursor. The CPU ...