A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the biggest changes, perhaps the most unheralded, comes down to compatibility. These days, you generally can’t fry a computer by …
Alan Turing’s ACE computer is a legendary computer that is particularly special for I Programmer – our account of it was the first ever history article on the site when it launched in 2009. Now this iconic machine is being rendered as a fully working virtual machine. Once it’s complete we’ll be able to interact …
February 15, 1924 was the day on which the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co was renamed as International Business Machines. It was just two days before the 50th birthday of Thomas J Watson Senior, making 17 February 2024 the 150th anniversary of the birth of the man known as the Father of IBM. …