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The Skanner, Portland’s dominant Black-owned newspaper, shuttered on Jan. 30. The newspaper was founded in 1975 by Bernie ...

The new “Forward and Beyond” report provides a detailed view of the Venture Forward campaign and chronicles how its ...

When I left the classroom 12 years ago, computer science was still treated like a niche pursuit, something for the few. Today, it’s the engine of change across every sector. In K–12 education, it is ...

He spent two decades hosting the PBS series, during the formative years of personal computing. It was seen in more than 300 cities at its peak. By Trip Gabriel Stewart Cheifet, who enthusiastically ...

Stewart Cheifet, the television producer and host who documented the personal computer revolution for nearly two decades on PBS, died on December 28, 2025, at age 87 in Philadelphia. Cheifet created ...

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The Osborne 1, the first laptop computer. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. In April 1981, the floor of the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco was crowded with hobbyist tinkerers, engineers and ...

Editor’s Note: Caprock Chronicles is edited each week by Jack Becker, emeritus Librarian at Texas Tech University. He can be reached at [email protected]. Today’s essay, by Paul Carlson and David ...

On Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, powerful antennas on the Mare Island shipyard picked up an urgent radio-telegram meant for U.S. Navy ships operating 3,600 miles away near Hawaii – “AIR RAID ON PEARL ...

The first episode of The Computer Chronicles to be taped for broadcast by PBS, with hosts Stewart Cheifet and Gary Kildall covering the history of the personal computer. A new breed of integrated ...