Technology has become an important tool in our everyday lives, and this holds true at Calvin University. As a Calvin student, you do have access to some computer labs and the campus network if you ...

Aug. 10 -- Look at almost any personal computer today and it’s not hard to see a lineage that dates back to that clunky box introduced by IBM 20 years ago. Sure, some computers have broken away ...

As ubiquitous as they might be now, in the 1970s, few things were more mysterious and unknown than the “personal computer.” For years, these shadowy, ever-shrinking machines had been touted as ...

New Words for the Computer Generation Personal computers exploded in the early 1980s. In 1982, kids were coloring in "The Computer Coloring Book," created by the author of this encyclopedia.

The company told workers to download employee tracking software on their personal computers, prompting privacy concerns from some staff.

Though many personal computers in the early 1970s were much cheaper, the most basic model of an HP 3000 sold for $95,000 in 1972, the equivalent of slightly over half a million in today’s dollars.

Two years later, like many others entering the volatile market, it had folded. In 1981, IBM entered the fray with its own personal computer, the PC, which became Apple's biggest competitor.