Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby. In the 1950s, storage hardware was measured in feet — and in tons. Back then, the era’s state-of-the-art computer drive was found in IBM’s RAMAC 305; ...

The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...

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 newest addition to the Computer History Museum’s permanent collection is called ERMA — it’s short for Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting — an early banking computer that you could say is the ...

Following last week’s fantastic Apple@50 panel, the Computer History Museum has announced “TechFest: Happy Birthday, Apple,” to be held on March 28. Here are the details. Last week, the Computer ...

A core group of early Microsoft developers and business leaders reunited this week, 40 years after releasing Windows 1.0, sharing previously untold stories and reflecting on a landmark project that ...