Microsoft has released the 86-DOS 1.00 source code, including its kernel, PC-DOS snapshots and utilities. Includes handwritten notes from 86-DOS creator Tim Paterson with timelines, feature context, ...

Before New Vegas, before Bethesda, before the Capital Wasteland, there was Fallout, the upstart 1997 RPG from Interplay. Initially worked on by a solitary programmer, the legendary Tim Cain, Fallout ...

Microsoft has arguably done more to shape the evolution of the PC than any other company. This week, Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary on April 4, 2025. Fifty years is a long time for anyone, ...

The history of computers is composed of an ever-growing number of consumer electronics devices, from game consoles to smartphones to music players, and the Computer History Museum's expansive catalog ...

Windows Recall was meant to make your PC history easier to search, but a new proof of concept is putting that promise under pressure again. Recall doesn’t capture a narrow slice of activity. It can ...

While designs were beginning to be realized at the beginning of the second half of the 1900s, personal computers came into fruition in the 1970s. Home computers, in the form that we see them today, ...

Set in the heart of Silicon Valley, the Computer History Museum long cheered the developments around it. Now, it’s taking a more nuanced approach. Credit...By Loren Elliott For The New York Times ...