The following supposed prototype for the world's first home computer, ... Scientists from RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a "home computer" could look in the year 2004.

Computerworld editors share stories of their first PCs, including some classics and some real clunkers. Then we turn the tables and ask readers to share their early-PC tales.

Sir Clive Sinclair has died aged 81. The inventor and entrepreneur, who was instrumental in bringing home computers to the masses and was best known for the landmark ZX Spectrum, has passed away ...

What was the first home computer? The Altair was the first mass-marketed personal computer. Made in 1974, it used Intel's ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor IBM’s first PC, announced on August 12, 1981, was far from the first personal computer–but when it arrived, there was near-universal agreement that it was likely to be a ...

Wanting a home computer that was more affordable, Commodore came up with the VIC-20, which used the same MOS 6502 CPU and upped the RAM by a whole kilobyte to 5KB – though this was expandable ...

In April 1960, China’s first home-grown electronic digital general purpose computer – the Model 107 – went live. Xia Peisu, the machine’s engineer and designer, had just made history.

STUART VARNEY: Two 40th anniversaries this week and both have great significance for the present. Start with IBM's first home computer.Introduced on August 12, 1981. The IBM 51-50 model was a real ...

My first computer was an Atari 800XL and I used it to send Morse code from ships in 1986.” Programming a Lego car During the 1970s and 1980s, home computers became increasingly affordable.