The company hired a California teacher named Gary Killdall to the write PL/M language for its Intellec-8 Development system. With this, Intel "had in fact invented a personal computer," Cerruzi ...

Each computer was the size of a small house, and the simple message “LOGIN” crashed the network. Stanford only received the first two letters, according to History.com.

OK, here's a wide open question that the Post-Bulletin's Answer Man is working on and could use some help answering. A reader wants to know who invented the computer? AM has limited scope of the ...

WHO INVENTED THE COMPUTER? The Legal Battle That Changed Computing History Alice Rowe Burks, . . Prometheus, $35 (463pp) ISBN 978-1-59102-034-9 ...

To compile a list of 50 things people never knew were invented by women, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed over a dozen news reports and historical articles on inventions, both by men and women, that changed ...

The novelist Jane Smiley has written an interesting and informative book called The Man Who Invented the Computer, which is marred chiefly by its title.Smiley herself clearly has mixed feelings ...

Crovitz contends it was Xerox that invented the Internet, though the company wasn’t quite sure what it had. Xerox used its computer networks to share copiers, because that was the company's ...

Apple didn't invent the portable computer. Neither did Toshiba. Or IBM. The first portable computer was created in April 1981 by a company called Osborne, led by a journalist turned entrepreneur ...

Who invented the computer password? Like the invention of the wheel or the story of the doorknob, the password's creation is shrouded in the mists of history. Romans used them.

Imagine you're a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore through the mine's sweltering tunnels.

Simulating the wheel’s evolution To begin our investigation, we created a computer program designed to simulate the ... According to our theory, there was no precise moment at which the wheel was ...