CHICAGO (AP) – William C. Lowe had a bold idea: IBM should develop a personal computer that could be mass marketed, expanding the company’s reach beyond businesses and into people’s homes. That was in ...

On this day, August 12 in 1981, the biggest shake-up in the history of computing took place at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City: The IBM Personal Computer model 5150 was released. There was ...

The IBM PC-AT was introduced in 1984. The "AT" stood for "advanced technology." The machine was the first upgrade from IBMs original PC architecture introduced in 1981 (the XT expanded storage options ...

The first IBM PC was launched on August 12, 1981. It and its many clones quickly dominated the PC market and helped Microsoft and Intel become huge tech companies that remain big to this day. We've ...

Robert Dennard, an engineer at IBM whose invention of dynamic random access memory — DRAM — in the late 1960s made possible personal computers, mobile phones, tablets and video game players, has died.

From the birth of the PC to the first smartphone, Boca Raton shaped the digital age. Now, D-Wave is moving into IBM's old labs to build the future.

Sitting here collecting dust, so I guess I should get rid of it. Worked great as a linux box for me for awhile, but I have something more robust now, so it got retired. Will preinstall RH7.x for ya if ...

IBM is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding Thursday. Led by American capitalist icons Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. until the 1970s, the company grew from a pre-World ...