Conceived for it's then-new Macintosh computer, the 1984 Macintosh spot was directed by Ridley Scott who utilized a gorgeous film aesthetic. The result? It looked like nothing we've ever seen on TV.

Computer fan preserved decades-old ads and brochures from the dawn of the computer age and is now sharing them online. Images: Revival of the retro PC Greg Sandoval covers media and digital ...

The first piece of tech gear that I could call my own wasn’t a computer; it was a game console–an original Sega Master System. I remember it, and the often-cheesy marketing that so appealed to my ...

10 Computer Ads From The 80s With tag lines like "Atari 800: More capabilities than any other personal computer under $1,000" and "TRS-80 Color Computer: Radio Shack's $399 TRS-80 Color Computer - ...

This excerpt is from Jamie Lendino’s Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, an amazing book that details with an obsessive’s eye the rise and fall of Atari 8-bit computers. While ...

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I've got a shelf full of computer history books, many of which I love and have reread several times. But I wanted to write one that focused on the first real computer I grew up with, the one that ...