Current day personal computers (or 'PCs') are vastly different to the early computers described here. The modern PC was made possible by the development of the microprocessor in the early 1970s.

1955: No single machine can claim to be the first computer. However, the work of the 19th century the UK mathematician and philosopher, Charles Babbage, certainly anticipated the creation of ...

Computers started to sing 63 years ago - the first warbling data cruncher was IBM’s 7094 and this is what it sang: ...