Microsoft co-founder recounts how IBM drastically underestimated the potential of nascent PC business -- which impacted early negotiations over terms for the DOS operating system. Charles Cooper was ...

IBM, which gave legitimacy to the personal computer business in the 1980s, is said to be negotiating the sale of its PC unit in a move that could reshape the industry. The company is negotiating with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. IBM PC's 40th anniversary ...

Thirty-nine years ago today, IBM launched the IBM Personal Computer (model number 5150). This was, depending on your point of view, either a calamity or a cause for celebration. The machine itself ...

IBM may be looking for an out of the PC world. Reports have surfaced that Big Blue – one of the key companies responsible for bringing personal computers mainstream – will soon be selling its PC ...

As IBM goes full circle and exits the PC business, let’s not forget the man that got the company there in the first place. With IBM‘s recent announcement that it was saying sayonara (or the Chinese ...

The industry luminaries who gathered at San Jose's Tech Museum of Innovation last week saw the potential of the personal computer 20 years ago. However, no one ever imagined the all-encompassing ...

IBM has revealed its plan for the world's first large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer, and it will be built in Poughkeepsie's new IBM Quantum Data Center. Announced on June 10, IBM's quantum ...

It wasn’t long ago I was nostalgic about an old computer I saw back in the 1980s from HP. It was sort of an early attempt at a PC, although price-wise it was only in reach for professionals. HP wasn’t ...

China's Lenovo Group has completed its $1.75 billion purchase of IBM's PC division, creating the world's third-largest PC maker, the companies said Sunday. "Within weeks, we will be introducing new ...

Mark Dean was part of the team that invented the groundbreaking IBM PC, which ushered in the information technology revolution in the 1980s. One of the most prominent African-American technologists, ...