In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...
From punch cards to magnetic cores to individual iron atoms, the history of computer memory reveals a fundamental principle: information storage always requires physical space, and we're rapidly ...
The newest addition to the Computer History Museum’s permanent collection is called ERMA — it’s short for Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting — an early banking computer that you could say is the ...