1974: The Altair 8800 microcomputer goes on sale. It doesn't offer much, but it's the small start of a big trend toward small things. A small New Mexico company -- with the big name of Micro ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Ed Roberts, an engineer who helped develop a precursor to the modern ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Not long after Intel introduced its ...

For those of us who are of a certain age or temperament, there’s a certain something about programming simple 8-bit computers in machine code using switches and pushbuttons. According to Wikipedia, ...

Henry Edward Roberts didn’t set out to kick-start the computer revolution. He was just trying to get out of debt. Roberts, who died yesterday at 68, was an Air Force man in his younger days and a ...

Since computers were very expensive and large, they were cheap enough to be owned by individuals in the mid-1970's, which was only used in some limited places such as laboratories and companies,Altair ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a cathode ray tube monitor ...