Is This How a Home Computer Was Imagined in 1954? Fortunately, the 'mouse' did indeed eventually supplant the steering wheel as the primary PC accessory.

Sir Clive Sinclair has died aged 81. The inventor and entrepreneur, who was instrumental in bringing home computers to the masses and was best known for the landmark ZX Spectrum, has passed away at… ...

Computerworld editors share stories of their first PCs, including some classics and some real clunkers. Then we turn the tables and ask readers to share their early-PC tales.

Home computer innovator — Sinclair’s first big breakthrough was the Sinclair Executive, an electronic calculator with a very small footprint.

Instead, ENIAC relied on vacuum tubes. What was the first home computer? The Altair was the first mass-marketed personal computer. Made in 1974, it used Intel's 8080 microprocessor.

This was the first time a computer could look seamless in the home, and that was what Apple, and each of its competitors, wanted.

Here at silicon.com we recently, rather unexpectedly, unleashed a tidal wave of tech nostalgia by asking the deceptively simple question: what was your first home computer? This question formed ...

What links the following? #1: a best-selling home computer, #2: one of the most beloved non-console gaming machines of the 80s and 90s, and #3: the first personal computer to sell over 1 million ...

The IBM PC is 25. And here are the top PCs ever, from machines you owned and loved to systems you've never heard of.

Ryan Rigney on Jesper Juul’s new book about the forgotten history of early home computer games Too Much Fun finally tells the C64’s legacy ...

From batch processing to the graphical user interface, from desktop PCs to smartphones, from luggables to wearables, computing has come a long way since Computer Weekly was first published in 1966 ...