A unit can be seen at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. Here, an IBM storage device boasting a whopping 5Mb of space is being loaded onto a plane while a group of onlookers wonders ...

Credit: US Army (Public Domain) J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the same duo who invented ENIAC, went on to design ...

Computers have become sleeker and faster since the early days of ENIAC. Track the history of computing power from 1946 to the present.

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 ...

Babbage's next idea is the Analytical Engine - a mechanical computer that can solve any mathematical problem. It uses punch-cards similar to those used by the Jacquard loom and can perform simple ...

Computers that exploit the weird rules of quantum mechanics may soon crack problems that are unsolvable using existing ...

We use computers every day. They help us to do lots of different things. We use lots of different types of computers, such as: NARRATION: How computers have changed. We're all used to small ...

(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.

What effects did the Dot-com Bubble have on the world of computing? Take a look back at one of the internet's most turbulent ...