We’ve read a number of histories of the IBM PC and lived through that time, too. But we enjoyed [Gareth Edwards’] perspective in a post entitled The Misfit who Built the IBM PC. The titular ...

This week in Philly history, a man and a computer face off in the final match of an intensely followed chess tournament Garry ...

NES86 is a newly unveiled project designed to bring early PC system emulation to the Nintendo Entertainment System. The emulator can seemingly recreate an Intel 8086 ...

A PC that is compatible with the IBM PC and PS/2 standards; essentially, every Windows PC on the market. This term is rarely heard anymore, but it was widely used in the early days when PC vendors ...

International Business Machines (IBM) is positioning itself at the forefront of this evolution. With plans to launch the world’s largest quantum computer in 2025, the company is on the verge of ...

World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game to IBM-developed supercomputer Deep Blue. This defining moment in ...

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IBM’s response was to develop its own computer. In 1954 IBM engineers presented what would be the first successful commercial computer. The IBM 650 cost $500,000, compared to a million dollars ...

IBM is a member of the Computer and Technology sector. This group includes 618 individual stocks and currently holds a Zacks Sector Rank of #1. The Zacks Sector Rank considers 16 different groups ...