Kids who typed BASIC programs from magazine listings were learning computational logic years before anyone called it coding. The frustration of floppy disk errors and cryptic system crashes quietly ...

Commodore’s VIC-20, the family-targeted successor to the PET, was announced in 1980 and became the first computer to sell over one million units. If you grew up in the 1980s, it’s possible you owned ...

The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long gone are the days of multiple components making up a single computer space, as the 1980s ...

In 1979, Atari released the Atari 400 and 800, groundbreaking home computers that included custom graphics and sound chips, four joystick ports, and the ability to run the most advanced home video ...