Costco sells some of the most advanced computers on the consumer market today, so you'll be surprised to learn their stores ...

Do you ever sit at your 1981 vintage IBM PC and get the urge to pop onto that newfangled ‘WWW’ to stay up to date on all the goings-on in the world? Fret not, because [Al’s Geek Lab] has you covered ...

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 ...

At my first office job in the mid-80s, we backed up the computer every night on reels of magnetic tape. Here, in a scene from a slide show of 1980s IBM mainframe computer ops (all set to a snappy ...

It wasn’t long ago I was nostalgic about an old computer I saw back in the 1980s from HP. It was sort of an early attempt at a PC, although price-wise it was only in reach for professionals. HP wasn’t ...

With the emergence of microcomputers in the 1970s, Microsoft’s version of the BASIC programming language had become highly popular. The deal with IBM took it to new heights, however, and positioned ...

In “Inflation and the Trump Factor” (Business World, June 15), Holman Jenkins, Jr. writes, “It’s no exaggeration to say the 1970s inflationary upheaval produced the resurgent ’80s and ’90s.” I ...

What you hear a lot on those is how games on 8-bit home computers from the 1980s (let's be real: retro computing is 98% about games) were written in assembly. Fair enough, with so little memory and ...