TAIPEI (Reuters) - This year will likely be the first year that laptop PC sales will outstrip those of desktop PCs. Here are some landmark dates in the history of personal computers which evolved from ...

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He was one of the computing pioneers who “showed what a computer interface could — and should — look like,” a colleague said. By Cade Metz William English, the engineer and researcher who helped build ...

Set in the heart of Silicon Valley, the Computer History Museum long cheered the developments around it. Now, it’s taking a more nuanced approach. Credit...By Loren Elliott For The New York Times ...