Previous decades laid the groundwork for the wide adoption of the internet in the '90s. This piece of '80s technology was a ...

IBM's PC unit piled up nearly $1 billion in cumulative losses in recent years, the company said in a filing detailing the planned sale of the business to China's Lenovo Group. The merger of IBM's PC ...

Fair enough. But the deal isn't quite that nice and neat for the government sector. Many buy the assurances of the IBM PC division's longevity under new ownership; however, others take issue with the ...

If you search the Internet for “Clone Wars,” you’ll get a lot of Star Wars-related pages. But the original Clone Wars took ...

You’ve gotta love it when your birthday falls on the weekend – well, it did last Saturday for one of the most august of our members – the IBM Personal Computer. The IBM PC, born 25 years ago, used a 4 ...

Despite the popularity of the IBM PC in the West during the 1980s, it had shortcomings that prevented it from flourishing in the Japanese market, most of all support for the Japanese language. This ...

Mention the name Radio Shack, and one thinks of the now-defunct retailer that sold electronics hobbyist kits and parts for the DIYers for many years. However, the retailer made a foray into the then ...

Microsoft’s MS-DOS (and its IBM-branded counterpart, PC DOS) eventually became software juggernauts, powering the vast majority of PCs throughout the ’80s and serving as the underpinnings of Windows ...

The Book 8088 was a neat experiment, but as a clone of the original IBM PC, it was pretty limited in what it could do. Early MS-DOS apps and games worked fine, and the very first Windows versions ran… ...