(The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA) The home of the largest collection of computer artifacts in the world, which includes thousands of hardware components, images, films and videos.

David Karpeles of Santa Barbara, a mathematician, historian and researcher who died last month, founding a national network of manuscript libraries housing a remarkable collection of historical ...

The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...

Every durable good built by man find itself in an awkward period where its immediate value has been used up, but its historical value is not yet realized. Every future antique is destined to be ...

A look back at the room-size government computer that began the digital era Steven Levy Philadelphia schoolchildren are drilled on the names of its accomplished citizens. William Penn. Benjamin ...

In February 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were about to unveil, for the first time, an electronic computer to the world. Their ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could ...

Inspired by A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi. But the selection of key events in the journey from ENIAC to Tesla, from Data Processing to Big Data, is mine. This ...

Founded and curated by Amsterdam-based writer Bas Van de Poel, the Computer Virus Catalog collects the weirdest viruses from the annals of computer history, and visualizes them as art. By pairing a ...

In May, the Rotary Club of Pottsville, Club No. 5319, donated $2,000 to the Schuylkill County Historical Society. On Wednesday, the club held its August meeting at the society’s headquarters and had ...