This book covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation ...
I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...
The Virtual OS Museum offers over 1,700 installations of 600+ operating systems, curated by developer Andrew Warkentin since ...
In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...
Developer Andrew Warkentin has released The Virtual OS Museum, a Linux VM that boots over 1,700 pre-installed operating ...
As one of the world’s most valuable companies, Microsoft has been a trailblazer in computer software, cloud computing, and AI, but it faced scandals and infighting along the way. Here’s how it all ...