IBM, which gave legitimacy to the personal computer business in the 1980s, is said to be negotiating the sale of its PC unit in a move that could reshape the industry.

Microsoft licensed the rights to 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products and offered to supply it to IBM. The IBM branded version was named PC-DOS while Microsoft’s was MS-DOS.

On the eve of the IBM PC's 30th anniversary, Mark Dean says the PC era is on its last legs. As one of the IBM engineers who helped create the original PC, he is certainly qualified to make this claim.

And IBM's creation was inferior in some ways to those rivals. But the 5150, more than any other computer before it, launched the PC revolution.

SAN JOSE, Calif.IBM faced a problem by late 1979: Computers were getting smaller and cheaper, increasingly finding a home in businesses where Big Blue was supplying everything from typewriters to ...

IBM will pour $3 billion into computing and chip materials research over the next five years, as it rethinks computer design and looks to a future that may not involve silicon chips. The computer ...