The personal computer industry began in 1977, when Apple, Radio Shack and Commodore introduced off-the-shelf computers as consumer products. Known as the "1977 Trinity," the Apple II, Radio Shack ...

When the TRS-80 — a personal computer from Tandy that would be sold via their RadioShack stores, hence TRS — went on sale on Aug. 3 in 1977, computers weren’t exactly new. The Apple I had been ...

This Throwback Thursday, we're celebrating the birth of the personal computer. IBM began producing small mainframe computers in leased office space in Boca Raton in September 1967. Three years later ...

Prior to the advent of the Microcomputer (of which the Personal Computer is a subset), computing meant getting a slice of time at a communal computer. Wait in line, sign up, book your time at the ...

Today we're going to talk about the birth of personal computing. Today we're going to talk about the birth of personal computing. Up until the early 1970s components were just too expensive, or ...

Today, a brand-new computer costs just a few hundred dollars and has capabilities that in 1972 were in the realm of science fiction. The advent of the personal computer is one of the most important ...

One of only ten surviving Kenbak-1 personal computers from 1971 has sold at auction for €34,000 (US$36,500). Judged the "first commercially available personal computer" in 1987 by a panel at the ...