This erasure will not stand. I, too, was a ‘90s kid and remember blocky computers and brick cellphones fondly. Stroll with me, if you will, down memory lane to view a small slice of the ...

Nearly 30 years later, global technology editor Harry McCracken revisited this icon for Fast Company's "1995 Week," offering a deep look not just at the laptop's ...

Well, portable by 1970s standards that also had very heavy video cameras and luggable computers like the Osborne 1. The IBM 5100 had a brief three-year life from 1975 to 1978.

IBM Description These two postcards advertise the IBM Portable Personal Computer. One features a color image of "Charlie Chaplin" carrying the computer against a white background. The other shows a ...

When thinking of home computers and their portable kin it’s easy to assume that all of them provided BASIC as their interpreter, but for a while APL also played a role. The most quaint APL po… ...

IBM Description This white advertising button has black text except for the word "portable," which is in blue. The button also shows an image of Charlie Chaplin carrying a portable computer. Two ...

The first computer scientist to receive a software patent for IBM was a weaver. And a clarinetist. And a woman. Her name is Janice Lourie. The patent, for her Graphical Design of Textiles, enabled ...