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Find answers to many of your technology related questions before you arrive on campus.Should I bring a computer to Calvin?Calvin strongly recommends students bring a computer to Calvin. Technology has ...
Image via Wikipedia Personal computers have come a long way since the first household PCs were developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Today, technology is more mobile than anyone could have ...
Aug. 10 -- Look at almost any personal computer today and it’s not hard to see a lineage that dates back to that clunky box introduced by IBM 20 years ago. Sure, some computers have broken away ...
As ubiquitous as they might be now, in the 1970s, few things were more mysterious and unknown than the “personal computer.” For years, these shadowy, ever-shrinking machines had been touted as ...
The personal computer industry began in 1977, when Apple, Radio Shack and Commodore introduced off-the-shelf computers as consumer products. Known as the "1977 Trinity," the Apple II, Radio Shack ...
Though many personal computers in the early 1970s were much cheaper, the most basic model of an HP 3000 sold for $95,000 in 1972, the equivalent of slightly over half a million in today’s dollars.