It's not easy to write a book. First, you have to pick a title. And then there is the table of contents. If you want the book to be categorized, either by a bookseller or a library, it has to be ...

This may (or not) be the right forum for this. In my folly, I've accumulated more than a hundred computer books over the years. Having an acknowledged element of the pack rat mentality has contributed ...

Early public encounters with computers were shaped less by direct use than by description and explanation. Long before laptops and smartphones became common, print media helped bring the technology to ...

C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages ...

Safari Books Online offers access to a huge catalog of books and videos about computers and technology for a fixed monthly rate. One of the biggest challenges in distributing digital content is to ...

There is a mystery at the heart of Too Much Fun, the new book about the history of the Commodore 64 by the Danish academic and game designer Jesper Juul: Why is the C64—by far the best-selling home ...