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What a long, strange...yeah, let's just get to reliving four decades of ups and downs punctuated by milestones in the personal computer industry and our coverage of them.

Four decades ago, no one knew exactly where technology would take us. We just knew the IBM PC was here to change everything.

The daring and design that went into the best-selling computer of all time

Roach led the push to bring the Tandy TRS-80 into American homes..

April 30, 2021 Tales of the early days of the first digital video game. Sometimes it’s only a short sentence, a few words dropped as an aside, which changes our understanding. A short glimpse, which provides deeper inside and understanding in what is a complex process. As it is here the case regarding how Spacewar!, the first digital video game became this remarkable program that gave birth to an entire industry. As usually, what was intended to be just a brief dump of an idea — at least, t...

Creative Computing from 1975-1985 which published a page of his poetry every issue. Payack is an acclaimed poet and writer including multiple appearances in The Paris Review, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Cornell Review, Asimovs Science Fiction Magazines, Creative Computing and the Boston Globe. He has published over 1,500 poems, stories, prose poems, photos and articles. His Poem, The Migration of Darkness, won the 1980 Rhysling Award, signifying The Best Poem in Science Fiction Poe...

Spacewar! Screenshot: This is a virtual DEC PDP-1 emulated in HTML5/JavaScript running the original code of "Spacewar!", the earliest known digital video game. If available, use gamepads or joysticks (currently Chrome and Firefox only, see instructions-memo below) for authentic gameplay — the game was originally played using custom control boxes. Spacewar! was conceived in 1961 by Martin Graetz, Stephen Russell, and Wayne Wiitanen. It was first realized on the PDP-1 in 1962 by Stephen Rus...

Two Texas State professors are working to improve childrens education through a computer science research project focused on a collaborative and relational way of problem-solving between humans and computers. The method of problem-solving, or computational thinking, is about finding effective solutions. With computers being relatively new, there is not much literature or research on how the early development of computational thinking could benefit children if taught at an early age. However, co...