The Omni Future Almanac is 293 pages of paleo-future glory. In the “Projected Computer Milestones” section of the book I naturally turned to 2007, curious just how far behind we are. It then occurred ...

*Great line from Dick Powell to Ruby Keeler in "Footlight Parade" from 1933: "You might as well have a copy of the Atlantic Monthly under your arm." 'D SELL MY COMPUTER before I'd sell my children.

Greenstein, Shane, and James B. Wade. "The Product Life Cycle in the Commercial Mainframe Computer Market, 1968-1982." RAND Journal of Economics 29, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 772–789.

Reagan politics was the paradoxical synthesis of "the spokesman for a scientific and technological revolution that a few years ago would have smacked of science fiction with the revivalists of ...

Regarded as one of the earliest portable computers – and perhaps the first true "notebook" PC – the Epson HX-20 was announced in November 1981 and released in 1982, with a starting price of $795. This ...

~ The growth of the Internet brought a new way to spreak viruses: e-mail NEW YORK -- What began as a ninth-grade prank, a way to trick already-suspicious friends who had fallen for his earlier ...

The Computer Programme was a TV series, produced by Paul Kriwaczek, originally broadcast by the BBC in 1982. The idea behind the series was to introduce people to computers and show them what they ...

Before the internet as we know it came to be, there were other services that delivered news and information to homes via computers and TVs. Like AT&T’s failed Viewtron system, which required content ...