Way back at Morristown High School, around '69, we got an old IBM 1620. It was focused on scientific computation, in contrast to the 1133. Lots of blinking lights and code that allowed very primitive ...
In that spirit, we asked several Computerworld editors to share stories of their first PCs. While most of us joined the ranks of PC owners during the ’80s, one editor didn’t buy his first computer ...
A research director at Los Alamos National Laboratory said the addition of a petascale supercomputer is as big a leap forward as when scientists got their hands on their first computer ever. IBM’s ...