The “save” icon for plenty of modern computer programs, including Microsoft Office, still looks like a floppy disk, despite the fact that these have been effectively obsolete for well over a decade.

Windows/Mac/Linux: The programming language that probably introduced more people to infinite loops than any other, Microsoft BASIC 6502 for the Commodore 64, is now available as a scripting language ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The new Commodore 64 computer, first released in 1982, appears the same ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC ...

These days, using a computer often seems like it’s less about actual computing and more about touching and dragging your way across the slick, safe UI of a mysteriously sealed, glowing rectangle. So ...