With the computer world on fire, mini PCs might become the new norm - here's why

Mini PCs have always been a kind of niche market, though Apple has done well with its Mac Mini. They're not a bad idea if you ...

Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal

Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully used to run programs on the school’s General Electric computer system 50 ...
Drexel University

40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer — and Apple — History

Drexel was prepared to buy IBM computers — and had equipped its computer centers with IBMs for decades — but the cost came to more than $1,000 per unit. IBM’s young competitor Apple, on the other hand ...
Texarkana Gazette

Bill Atkinson, who made computers easier to use, dies at 74

Bill Atkinson, an Apple Computer designer who created the software that enabled the transformative visual approach pioneered by the company's Lisa and Macintosh computers, making the machines ...
Network World

The top 10 standout Macs of the past 25 years

Back before Apple made computers that fit in your pocket, it made computers that fit on your desk. Some were big-box machines, others were not so portable portables and still others were -- literally ...
Houston Chronicle

How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kai James, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine you’re a copper ...
Drexel University

40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer — and Apple — History

“The freshmen now entering Drexel [in the early 1980s] will spend the greater portion of their professional lives in the 21st century, in an environment in which the computer will be an everyday, even ...