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It was only when I became a technology writer some years later that I realized that my landlord had invented the computer. In the early 1940s John Presper “Pres” Eckert Jr. was a grad student ...

“If a computer could punch cards or print on paper ... After licensing this invention from the Stanford Research Institute, Apple decided it would be simpler to give it just one button.

A single IMP connected to one computer wasn’t much of a network. So it was very exciting in September 1969 when IMP-1 was ...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH, April 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a visually interesting computer for teaching religious education to young children," said an inventor, from Athens, Ala., "so I ...

a director of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. He worked alongside English and many other computing pioneers in the 1970s. William Kirk English was born on Jan 27 ...

"so I invented the COMPUTER TYPING KEYBOARD TEST COVER. My design could fit any standard keyboard, and it could help promote higher typing speed, efficiency, and accuracy." The patent-pending ...