Do you ever sit at your 1981 vintage IBM PC and get the urge to pop onto that newfangled ‘WWW’ to stay up to date on all the goings-on in the world? Fret not, because [Al’s Geek Lab] has you covered ...

At my first office job in the mid-80s, we backed up the computer every night on reels of magnetic tape. Here, in a scene from a slide show of 1980s IBM mainframe computer ops (all set to a snappy ...

The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long gone are the days of multiple components making up a single computer space, as the 1980s ...

If you grew up in America, the early history of home computers in the UK might not be familiar to you. But Great Britain produced innovative personal computers that were as equally successful and ...

In “Inflation and the Trump Factor” (Business World, June 15), Holman Jenkins, Jr. writes, “It’s no exaggeration to say the 1970s inflationary upheaval produced the resurgent ’80s and ’90s.” I ...

ENDICOTT, N.Y. -- Google, Apple and Facebook get all the attention. But the forgettable everyday tasks of technology -- saving a file on your laptop, swiping your ATM card to get 40 bucks, scanning a ...

In a world that flocks to the latest, biggest and fastest computer to hit the market, IBM Rochester did something very unusual on a bright, sunny day in June of 1988. It rolled out the AS/400 midrange ...