Completed May 1941 Who made the world’s first programmable digital computer? The Americans? The British? The Japanese? Well, in what is perh...

Introduced May 1961 Sometimes products are released that look like they are sure-fire successes at the time, but end up in the long run as b...

Introduced April 1971 Two cars, two different design philosophies – the Fiat 127 and Morris Marina were both introduced in April 1971. One e...

Introduced April 1981 The sound of modems belongs to a certain era before ubiquitous broadband. The characteristic screeching noise – a bit ...

Introduced April 1981 By the early 1980s, hardware and software designers had great dreams about what they wanted products to be. Portable p...

Introduced April 1981 By 1981 the business microcomputer market was developing very rapidly. First generation 8-bit systems were giving way ...

Introduced April 1981 These days we take our computers everywhere – powerful smartphones, big-screen tablets and for more serious work, lapt...