Two of the first-ever desktop computers have been found in storage boxes at Kingston University in London. A milestone in human achievement, the Q1 microprocessor computer was released more than half ...

BOULDER CREEK, Calif.--I have seen the world's first microcomputer, and it is not the Altair. For years, any serious discussions about the earliest microcomputers had to include the Altair 8800, the ...

Two of the world's earliest microcomputers, the Q1 models, have resurfaced from storage boxes at Kingston University in London, shedding light on the formative years of computing. The Q1 ...

From the October, 1979 issue of High Times comes Francis X. Kirby’s “How To Buy A Brain For $2,500 Or Less.” Tiny computers are here to stay. These shiny little miracles of machine intelligence are ...

Schools around the UK are to be given 15,000 free microcomputers, with a view to creating a new generation of computer scientists. Funded by Google, the Raspberry Pi Foundation hopes the free devices ...

There is no doubt it is now easier than ever to build a computer and computer-based devices, especially with the emergence of do-it-yourself microcomputers such as Raspberry Pi, Pine A64 and Arduino.