Before the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, Apple was all about the personal computer. In 1984, the company was battling IBM to dominate the home computer market. And on April 24, 1984, TODAY reported ...

Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of Dell Computer. By any account, Michael Dell's life is an all-American success story. In 1984, 19-year-old Michael Dell, a freshman at the University of Texas ...

Have you moaned and groaned lately about how your Intel Core i5 processor just isn’t cutting it these days? What about complaining about your single graphics card setup, bemoaning the fact that your ...

In 1984, women stopped pursuing Computer Science majors at American universities. From 1970 onward, women had composed an increasing percentage of Computer Science majors, but something happened in ...

Take a gander at the Seiko UC-2000. This is how far we’ve come in 22 years. Compare that monster with the Zypad WL 1000, which has WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and Linux/Windows CE. The Seiko, well, we’re ...

Earlier this week, Apple was talking up its new smartwatch models, but the concept of this product category started back in the early 1980s. In 1984, the ABC's Towards 2000 program reported on a ...

Some things have become so ubiquitous that we never stop to wonder what came before them. Take the neat row of icons stacked at the bottom of your Mac screen. Before 1984, these little icons simply ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- For most, the two weeks surrounding Christmas and New Year's are filled with fun and family. But many parents know, by the time the break from school nears an end, finding new ways to ...

Frank is a social media journalist for the CDW family of technology magazine websites. In the early 1980s, the computer science industry was amassing a huge workforce of men and women to support the ...