I'm trying to identify the two computers (at very different ends of the price spectrum) depicted. The top one looks to me like an IBM System/3 minicomputer (released 1969). Early models were diskless ...

Computers were only ever used for the year of their release, even if their sales or popularity reached a peak the following year. 1971 was chosen as the first year because it was the year the first ...

At the “Astroflash” office in Grand Central Terminal in New York Jan. 18, 1971. Your horoscope is computed by IBM machines after you give your day, month, and year of birth, plus city and state, and, ...

Once wildly expensive and inaccessible but to the very rich, computers today are one of the most ubiquitous technologies worldwide. The most basic model of an HP 3000 sold for $95,000 in 1972, the ...