In November 1970 a patent was granted for a device dubbed an “X-Y position indicator for a display system”.

As the use of technology expands, the lines between our business, educational, and personal lives becomes blurred. Any device connected to the internet can be used as an attack vector. Preventative ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the early 1970s, most personal ...

Claim: Photographs show a conceptual pen-sized personal computer system. carry out the normal operations you do on your desktop. Origins: It seems to many of us these days that the pace of ...

There’s no such thing as the perfect computer, and never has been. But in the personal computer’s long and varied history, some computers have been decidedly less perfect than others. Many early PCs ...

Back in 2005, we charted 30 years of personal computer market share to show graphically how the industry had developed, who succeeded and when, and how some iconic names eventually faded away ...

In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...

The market shrunk, and the stronger vendors generally got stronger. Market research company IDC announced on Jan. 11 that the category of products that it refers to as "traditional [personal computers ...