Chris Null over at Mobile PC Mag does another great follow up to his Top 100 Gadgets of All Time, this time detailing the history of the portable computer, from the IBM 5100 Portable Computer pictured ...

Modern laptop designs are a far cry from their predecessors, but only because it’s been a long, iterative process with many major milestones along the way. The first laptop, the first thin-and-light ...

When I sit down to write an article about a laptop I recently reviewed, my most immediate thoughts are usually focused on a feature I liked or disliked, or what type of person it would benefit the ...

Mark Wilson, “Untitled Gray Ground & Untitled Light Gray Ground” (1973) (click to enlarge) Personal computing may have begun in the 1980s but the history of computer art started much earlier during a ...

C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages ...

Set in the heart of Silicon Valley, the Computer History Museum long cheered the developments around it. Now, it’s taking a more nuanced approach. Credit...By Loren Elliott For The New York Times ...

“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 ...