Computer buyers now have many more options for purchasing personal computing devices, including the Microsoft Surface tablet. (Nigel Treblin/Getty Images) Forget about the gigahertz. Don’t worry about ...

Ever notice how there are a lot of acronyms for computer stuff? API, BIOS, CPU, DOS (not to be confused with DoS), DRAM, GPU, HDD, RAM, ROM, and a whole lot more... It can get downright overwhelming.

Pop quiz: How often do you need to restart your computer for best performance? Here’s a hint. If you only do it when your machine crashes or needs to update, that’s not enough. Tap or click for my ...

Can you guess what devices are in the images below? The images come in pairs. The first will be a close up. Try to guess what you are looking at before scrolling down to the next one, which will show ...

Harry Huskey with the Bendix G15, the first “personal computer.” Harry Huskey, a pioneering computer scientist who worked on early computing systems and later helped universities around the world ...