One of the world's first calculating machines will not go to auction as scheduled, France, after a Paris court provisionally blocked the historic item from being export. Auction house Christie's has ...

Blaise Pascal is known for a number of things, but we remember him best for the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator. [Chris Staecker] got a chance to take a close look at one, which is quite a ...

A French court has blocked the export and foreign purchase of a 17th century arithmetic machine invented by Blaise Pascal to help ease the laborious task of calculating taxes. The sale of an ancient ...

Some of the world's earliest personal computers – including the iconic Apple I - are to be auctioned in Germany. The Apple I machine, one of six working Apple I computers in the world according to ...