From blinking lights and punch cards to LCDs and 3D flat panels, we trace the 70-year history of the tech that users rely on to see what a computer is doing. By Benj Edwards Nov 1, 2010 6:00 pm PDT ...

The history of computers began with primitive designs in the early 19th century and went on to change the world during the 20th century. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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 computer itself was vast -- about 30 feet by 50 feet (9m x 15m) -- and the storage device itself, the very first commercial hard disk drive, was a 1.5-meter cube.

(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 ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Computer History Museum has hosted 29 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2009 Forum. The year with the most events was 2014 with six events.

"But it was a joke," says Paul Atkinson, professor of design and design history at Sheffield Hallam University in England. The Honeywell Kitchen Computer—really just a commercial Honeywell 316 ...