These powerful computers ruled technical tasks in the '80s and '90s. Can you still find one today?

A one-man company named Whitehorn Ltd. Co. recently announced that DR-DOS is coming back. The "new" text-based operating ...

The former president of Microsoft's Windows division says his new MacBook Neo is so good that it will replace his MacBook Air, adding that compromises' are totally acceptable and go unnoticed.

For more than 50 years, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) has been one of the world’s most influential companies, now a titan in ...

Players looking for inventive indie gems to play between the huge, AAA releases had plenty of options to tuck into throughout the month of February.

Who doesn’t remember PC games such as Maniac Mansion, the King’s Quest series and the dubious adventures of Leisure Suit Larry or software such as Microsoft Works and Lotus Smart Suite? These titles ...

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built ...

Editor's take: Back in the DOS days, real PC users wrote their textual tomes in the official MS-DOS Editor – I certainly did. These days, developers offer a confusing array of text editors, so ...

On this day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a company called Micro-Soft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The two men had worked together before, as members of the Lakeside Programming group in ...

After [Andy]’s discovery of an old ISA soundcard at his parents’ place that once was inside the family PC, the onset of a wave of nostalgia for those old-school sounds drove him off the deep end. This ...

Rather than using IBM proprietary components developed for their many other computers, the IBM PC used industry standard commercial parts. That included adopting the Intel 8088 microprocessor as the ...

If you have forgotten your user or administrator password, the only possible way to recover is by resetting the BIOS. Even though you can’t access the firmware interface for manually loading the ...