And unlike any machine before it, the Apple II wasn't a “kit”—a computer the customer had to assemble herself from purchased parts.

Until 1981, IBM had mostly been focused on large-scale mainframe computing for businesses, but with the rise in the late 1970s of "microcomputers" such as the Apple II and Tandy TRS-80, IBM set ...

The 2024 Apple Mac Mini is not perfect though, with its biggest bugbear being the puny 256GB storage the entry level model comes from; I can live with that. Like the original IBM PC, it has hit a ...

The VisiCalc Spreadsheet VisiCalc on the Apple II caused Apples to flourish in business. It was also popular on IBM's new PC until Lotus 1-2-3 became number one almost overnight.

It's been 30 years since the Apple II advanced the personal computer beyond the early quirky boxes and became the first love of many a budding gamer and programmer.

Apple Extended Keyboard II was the successor to, surprise, the Apple Extended Keyboard. Extended means that it had arrow and function keys, something the original Mac keyboard lacked.

In 1977 I decided to buy a computer. Microsoft and Apple were newly founded, the IBM PC was years away and there were no killer apps. It took over a year, but I had to have one and it changed my life.

3. The IBM PC's genesis, according to folklore, came about when a company executive was visiting one of the engineering labs and saw everyone using Apple II PCs because they were cheap enough to ...

Forty years ago this week, the iconic IBM PC made its debut. In honor of this game-changing tech anniversary, we ranked the most important PCs of all time ...