Priced at $4,000, the first ever "laptop" weighed 9 pounds ... the Gavilan SC was more compact than rival IBM PC-compatible portable computers such as the 28 pounder (13 kg) Compaq Portable.

[Yeo Kheng Meng] didn’t cheat by simply running MS-DOS on a modern PC, either: he tested the client on a real 1984 vintage IBM 5155 Portable PC. This semi-portable PC/XT model sports a 4.77 MHz ...

The history of personal computers, like most of human history, is a chronicle of our reach exceeding our grasp. Nowhere is this truer than with laptops and tablet PCs. The supposedly portable ...

The story so far.... In 1975, Ed Roberts invented the Altair personal computer. It was a pain to use until 19 year-old pre-billionaire Bill Gates wrote the first personal computer language.

Throughout the 1960s, computers went through ... The PDP-1 even features the first computerized video game in history and a ...

Hewlett-Packard's 9100A, the world's first personal computer, was based on a prototype built by Tom Osborne of Cody. Called “The Green Machine,” it ...

Many of the modern pieces of technology you use everyday actually evolved out of prior inventions that, in some cases, date ...

Metaverse is a term first ... companies like IBM and Microsoft had virtual islands in the social virtual world Second Life, ...

The cell phone Captain Kirk's communicator is rumored to have inspired Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola to design the first cell phone ... The iPad Portable interactive tablets feature prominently ...

There are two main types of storage you'll find in computers: hard disk drives ... It has been around since the 1950s (first introduced by IBM), and while its physical size has shrunk and ...

Every year, complaints come from the usual suspects demanding to know when Apple will innovate, and specifically when it will ...