Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. When I started using a computer in the mid-1970s, it was on a ...

Lydon Thorpe, a 27-year-old resident of Brooklyn, shows why the personal computer became the hottest gadget of the 2020s. He owns a smartphone, a tablet with a stylus, a handheld video game console ...

The personal computer has been around in some form for another since the release of John Blankenbaker's Kenbak-1 in 1971. However, it wasn't until 1975 that the PC hit the consumer market with the ...

In addition to a legacy analog audio video interfaces, for which NXP offers high-bandwidth switches and audio converters, today’s personal computers and notebooks include a HDMI output interface for ...

For the personal computer industry, 1984 was a wild ride, dominated by a handful of startups run by young people with big ideas. The year began with a bang when 28-year-old Steve Jobs introduced the ...

The Apple-1 Computer was developed and conceived by Steve Jobs and Steve 'Woz' Wozniak in the mid-1970s as a complete hobbyist kit. It was also one of the first 'personal computers' you could buy, as ...

But when VisiCalc for the Apple II appeared in 1979, the personal computer outgrew the garage and got down to business. Two years later, IBM unveiled its PC; before long, putty-colored boxes were as ...