America at 300: Imagining the next half-century of change

Moon bases, living to 100 and (finally!) flying cars. What 2076 and our future will look like may be stranger than we expect.
New Atlas

Priceless barn find: World's first microcomputers discovered by cleaners

The history of computers, and especially of what became the personal computer, is one of those topics that is extremely complicated to nail down. With the development of the silicon chip, the already ...
techtimes

Two of the World’s First Microcomputers, Dating Back Over 50 Years, Are Unearthed in London House Clearance

Two of the world's earliest microcomputers, the Q1 models, have resurfaced from storage boxes at Kingston University in London, shedding light on the formative years of computing. The Q1 ...
CNET

Inside the world's long-lost first microcomputer

BOULDER CREEK, Calif.--I have seen the world's first microcomputer, and it is not the Altair. For years, any serious discussions about the earliest microcomputers had to include the Altair 8800, the ...
insider.si.edu

The Apple II age : how the computer became personal / Laine Nooney

Prehistories of the personal -- Cultivating the Apple II -- Business : VisiCalc -- Games : Mystery House -- Utilities : Locksmith -- Home : The Print Shop -- Education : Snooper Troops -- ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Managing Microcomputers in Large Organizations

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF.
High Times

Flashback Friday: Microcomputers

From the October, 1979 issue of High Times comes Francis X. Kirby’s “How To Buy A Brain For $2,500 Or Less.” Tiny computers are here to stay. These shiny little miracles of machine intelligence are ...