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Windows 95 brought together the features of MSDOS and Microsoft Windows products into one operating system. The user-interface upgrade at the time blew the competition away. The 32bit operating system paved the way for Microsoft’s firmer grip on the PC/Desktop market. Robust sales and reception laid the groundwork for the company’s future OS installments. Relish the nostalgia and run Windows 95 on PC without having to install it on your partition. There are few ways to do that, some involve online on your browser, and others rely on your PC’s emulation capabilities. Best Windows 95 Emulator Windows 93 Winodws 95...

Seventy years ago was arguably the start of the modern computer age. A machine that took up an entire room at a laboratory in Manchester University ran its first programme at 11am on 21 June 1948. The prototype completed the task in 52 minutes, having run through 3.5 million calculations. The Manchester Baby, known formally as the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, was the world's first stored-program computer. It paved the way for the first commercially-available computers in a city known for centuries of science and innovation.

Alan Norton's groundbreaking graphics work from 1989 done at IBM Research on physically based animation. Basically, you mathematically created a world, put a mathematical object into it, and turned on the world to see what happened. The Utah Teapot was the common object used within graphics research. Alan's notion was to tease the community by breaking their common object. This is my video of Alan describing his research. For those interested in the fundamental figures in computer science, here is the raw footage of two 1990 interviews with John Cocke, the inventor of RISC architecture. An amazing and wonderful man....

The Director of IBM Research wanted a very quick video for a keynote speech he was giving, so I stayed up all night making this for him. This was so big and new that we put it out with bugs in the video that was running on the computer screen. The music is by David Jameson, a computer scientist friend who had a song in the top 10 in Ireland. Made about 1990 - 27 years ago!

I am trying to find info on 3 different computers. First, the Compaq Desk Pro 386 of 1986...how much did it cost brand new when it was first hit the stores? Second, the same info for the HP Vectra 486 of 1990. And finally, what make of computer offered for sale the very first pentium I 60Mhz computer and what was the model name/number?

Jef Raskin, the human-computer interface expert largely credited with beginning the Macintosh project for Apple Computer, died Saturday at age 61. Raskin, the author of The Humane Interface, died of cancer, according to a man who answered the telephone Sunday at Raskin's Pacifica, Calif., home. Raskin joined Apple in January 1978 as employee No. 31, but left the company in 1982 amid a well-documented dispute with Steve Jobs. The Macintosh was launched in 1984. Reskin was an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego, and a visiting scholar at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the 1970s when...