Kids who typed BASIC programs from magazine listings were learning computational logic years before anyone called it coding. The frustration of floppy disk errors and cryptic system crashes quietly ...

The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long gone are the days of multiple components making up a single computer space, as the 1980s ...

Should you travel around Europe, you may notice that things in France are ever so slightly different. Not necessarily better or worse, simply that the French prefer to plough their own furrow rather ...

In 1979, Atari released the Atari 400 and 800, groundbreaking home computers that included custom graphics and sound chips, four joystick ports, and the ability to run the most advanced home video ...

Whenever you see a computer screen from the 1980s the text is always green and there are several reasons for that. Here's everything you need to know.

Mark Wilson, “Untitled Gray Ground & Untitled Light Gray Ground” (1973) (click to enlarge) Personal computing may have begun in the 1980s but the history of computer art started much earlier during a ...

The Commander X16 is a microATX computer developed over the last few years and modeled on the 8-bit computers of the 1980s, specifically the Commodore 16. This computer is manufactured of all-new ...

In 1987, the American artist Keith Haring, known for his signature bright, cartoonish style, created five digital drawings on a chunky personal computer. Since then, these images have been stored on ...