What's old is new again can apply to a great many items in life, including 40-year-old electronic gadgets. They just don't ...

For most people, the IBM name is a fragment of the past, something that only comes up in old '80s sci-fi movies or in documentaries of ancient tech. The company's still up and running, and it does ...

The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long gone are the days of multiple components making up a single computer space, as the 1980s ...

At my first office job in the mid-80s, we backed up the computer every night on reels of magnetic tape. Here, in a scene from a slide show of 1980s IBM mainframe computer ops (all set to a snappy ...

The 1980s are a fascinating period in recent history. It was the decade when regular people really started to experience the high-tech revolution, which, up to that point, had largely been limited to ...