IBM followed on in the early 80’s with the PC XT/370, a desktop system that ran a slimmed-down version of the mainframe OS VM/370. I lusted after that machine, but alas, the 5-figure price was a ...

By the early '70s, innovations sallied forth at a breakneck pace, and 1971 alone saw IBM introduce a speech recognition technology as well as the Floppy Disk. In 1973, IBM researcher Dr. Leo Esaki ...

The IBM 7094 is regarded as one of the most powerful and advanced mainframe computers of the early 1960s. NASA and the Air Force used the 7094 for critical operations, and the mainframe played a large ...

In 1954 IBM engineers presented what would be the first successful commercial computer. The IBM 650 cost $500,000, compared to a million dollars for the UNIVAC. In eight years, 1,800 units were sold.

Modern day computer artist, [Amy Goodchild] surveys a history of Early Computer Art from the 1950s and 1960s. With so much attention presently focused on AI-generated artwork, we should remember th… ...

Early Model F keyboards had keycaps that were the same size, ... And there's worse news. If you can find one, the [80286-based IBM] PC/AT keyboard uses a 5-pin DIN connector, ...