Computer Competencies Checklist. Employees in office settings, and on the road as well, must possess basic computer competency to perform their job duties.

As computer technology continued to advance, the need for more complex programming languages surfaced. Academia and business moved away from BASIC and Pascal to languages like C and C++, which were ...

GOTO 1976 Microsoft has open-sourced the version of BASIC it created in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor used in many early microcomputers.… As the software colossus explained in a Wednesday post, ...

A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC ...

Computer Installation Basics. Many small businesses are turning to technology, attempting to streamline their operation processes. Usually, only larger companies can afford a technology specialist ...

A Reddit thread discussing a lack of basic computer skills that "shocked" users has made its rounds with over 43,000 upvotes and another 23,000-plus comments.

Long before the days of laptops and smartphones, Thomas E. Kurtz worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. Kurtz has died at 96.

Experiments in airborne BASIC—”buzzing” computer code over FM radio Before the 'Net, Finland created a primetime program-sharing radio service.