If you are an enthusiast for 1950s computer hardware, you are probably out of luck when it comes to owning a machine of your own. Your best chance will be to join the staff of one of the various ...

Debugging computers in the 1950s sounds like it wasn’t an easy task. That’s one of the interesting facts from this fascinating talk by [Guy Fedorkow] about the Whirlwind, one of the first digital ...

Here's a new version of Jingle Bells you won't hear played in malls, and it's courtesy of one of the oldest computers in history. Turing archive director Jack Copeland and composer Jason Long have ...

The Harwell Dekatron computer is a 1950s computer having roughly the weight and size of a Hummer H3 and the computing power of a four-function pocket calculator. Having been restored to its original ...

The 1950s computer was not for the everyman, unless, of course, that everyman had a government-defense budget to work with. Well in 1956, as it so happens, there was one man-about-town who had the ...

BOZEMAN (AP) - A 1950s computer, with less memory than a musical greeting card, was donated to the American Computer Museum here.

BOZEMAN (AP) -- A 1950s computer, with less memory than a musical greeting card, was donated to the American Computer Museum here. ''Here comes the beast," said museum director George Keremedjiev ...

After getting its start in the space program in the 1950s, computer vision technology slowly but steadily worked its way into numerous industrial and commercial applications. According to Jeff Bier, ...