‘Do You Compute?’ investigates how technology went from being written off as science fiction to something we engage with every day. In the years following the end of World War II, computers were just ...

Part of what makes vintage advertisements fascinating is the way they reveal what the companies of an earlier era wanted people to think. That’s as true of the early days of computing as it is today.

Computers have come a long way since their birth in the earlier part of the 20th century. Still technology is rapidly advancing . The traditional desktop computer still exists, but more and more ...

It's always fun to take a walk down memory lane, especially the gold age in the advent of Personal Computing technologies. Some of the best ways to revisit this era are through print magazine ads that ...

(From “Do You Compute: Selling Tech from the Atomic Age to the Y2K Bug” by Ryan Mungia and Steven Heller) “I think it was a big challenge for ad agencies, the people who were making the ads, to ...

I bet you don’t remember that both William Shatner and Isaac Asmiov were pitchmen for PCs. Well, people who had “home computers” back in the 1980s do. Here’s a collection of insanely great (and ...

Every now and again, it's interesting to look back at the computer advertisements of the 1970s and 1980s, as a lesson in what worked, what didn't, and what companies survived the grinding market ...