Subsequent years were not kind to the inventors. Mauchly and Eckert began the first commercial computer corporation, building an Eniac successor. But their firm struggled and the pair sold the ...

Today, Design Shift has released ORWL (as in George Orwell), the first computer designed with physical security in mind. This tiny disc of a computer is designed to defeat an Evil Maid through ...

Wilhelm Schickard builds the first mechanical calculator in 1623 ... Babbage's next idea is the Analytical Engine - a mechanical computer that can solve any mathematical problem.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data in 1971 to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems. 1972: Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel ...

One investigator dubbed it “an ancient Greek computer.” But the X-ray images ... Posidonius made a similar model of the heavens in the first century B.C. The tradition of making such ...

Evans wants readers to learn about women who have been forgotten in tech history. Ada Lovelace may not be a household name like Steve Jobs but she is possibly the first computer programmer.

Macworld Maybe you didn’t realize this, but Microsoft is actually older than Apple. While Apple marked its 49th anniversary ...

Following are samples of the 40,000+ entries in this tech reference, written by Alan Freedman, one of the first computer programmers in America (more about the author at the end of this page).