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 character ...

These 1980s gaming computers shaped home play, bedroom coding, and the path to modern PC gaming. Several also have modern ...

IBM's PC unit piled up nearly $1 billion in cumulative losses in recent years, the company said in a filing detailing the planned sale of the business to China's Lenovo Group. The merger of IBM's PC ...

A sign for an IBM corporate campus in Dublin, Ireland. - Frank Brennan/Getty Images IBM is an exceptionally old company, having originated in 1911, when it sold some of the earliest data tabulating ...

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 first IBM PC was launched on August 12, 1981. It and its many clones quickly dominated the PC market and helped Microsoft and Intel become huge tech companies that remain big to this day. We've ...

Although ARM CPUs have been making headway in several areas of computing over the last decade or so, the vast majority of desktop, laptop and server CPUs are still based on the x86 architecture. How ...

If the deal is consummated after the due diligence phase, which could take four months, Lenovo will manufacture and market IBM-branded PCs and notebooks through current IBM channels, including IBM's ...