Vintage Technology Collector

The Kenbak-1 is regarded by the Computer History Museum of America as the worlds first personal computer. Robert Nielsen owned one of these machines since 1971 and in this video he shows you the inside of it. A rate KENBAK-1 computer is for sale on eBay.com right now.

The New Yorker reports: "ANNALS OF BUSINESS about Xerox PARC, Apple, and the creation of the personal computer. Describes a visit by Steve Jobs to Xerox PARC in 1979. Xerox PARC was the innovation arm of the Xerox Corporation. In 1970, Xerox had assembled the world’s greatest computer engineers and programmers, and for the next ten years they had an unparalleled run of innovation and invention. By 1979, Apple was already one of the hottest tech firms in the country. So Jobs proposed a deal: he would allow Xerox to buy a hundred thousand shares of his company for a million dollars—its highly anticipated I.P.O. was just a year away—if PARC would “open its kimono.”" This is probably the best article on the subject I have seen. Note: To read the full article requires a subscription.

Molly gives us some video game history, telling the tale of the Great Video Game Crash of '83.

On eBay is a Popular Electronics Magazine from January 1975, which has a famous article about the Altair 8800 in it. Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia (whole article ): "A cover story on Popular Electronics could launch a new product or company. The most famous issue, January 1975, had the Altair 8800 computer on the cover and this ignited the home computer revolution. Paul Allen showed that issue to Bill Gates. They wrote a BASIC interpreter for the Altair computer and started Microsoft."

Watch a full upgrade of the OS from MS-DOS 5 to Windows 7.

[ITEM DESCRIPTION] TITLE :RARE PIPIN ATMARK BOXED GAMES CONSOLE GENRE :GAMES SYSTEM WHOLE STATE :USED You don't see many of these on eBay. Its one of those failed product re-banded by Apple that no one talks about. For more information, check out the following Wikipedia article .

The evolution of hard drives | Storage - InfoWorld : "The history of the hard drive, from monsters that required teams of technicians to operate to coin-sized flash drives"