The history of computers goes back over 200 years. At first theorized by mathematicians and entrepreneurs, during the 19th century mechanical calculating machines were designed and built to solve the ...
The Computer History Museum, based in Mountain View, California, looks like a fine way to spend an afternoon for anyone ...
If your travels take you near Mountain View, California, you can have the pleasure of visiting the Computer History Museum.
A computer that processes analog data is known as an analog computer. Analog computers store information in physical quantities in a continuous format and use measurements to perform computation.
Among the many facets of modern technology, few have evolved faster or more radically than the computer. In less than a century its very nature has changed significantly: today’s smartphones easily ...
A recently found computer artifact in a university storage closet dates back some 50 years to the foundations of our modern ...
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; ...