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 ...

Ending nearly a week of speculation, IBM has reached an agreement to sell its personal computer business to Chinese PC maker Lenovo for US$1.25 billion in cash, a deal that calls for Big Blue to ...

IBM Corp., the company that popularized the personal computer, said Tuesday it will sell its PC business to Lenovo Group of Beijing for $1.75 billion. The deal marks the exit of an industry pioneer ...

Previous decades laid the groundwork for the wide adoption of the internet in the '90s. This piece of '80s technology was a ...

Y'see, without that clock, the computer wouldn't boot. You're a bit later in the progression, then; the IBM PC had no clock battery and you had to manually set the clock on boot. There were a number ...

Among corporate technology managers, it's one of the oldest adages: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." That is because many regarded it to be a safe bet to do business with the established tech ...

In a move that could end an era by eliminating a pioneer from the personal computer industry, IBM has reportedly put its PC business up for sale and might already have at least one prospective buyer ...

CHICAGO (AP) – William C. Lowe had a bold idea: IBM should develop a personal computer that could be mass marketed, expanding the company’s reach beyond businesses and into people’s homes. That was in ...