The 1980s were the heyday of the venerable Z80, a processor that found its way into innumerable home computers, industrial systems, and yes — arcade machines. However, not everyone had a Z80 based ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the early 1970s, most personal ...

35 years ago today, at a press conference held inside New York City’s Warwick Hotel, Radio Shack unveiled in TRS-80 personal computer, Model I, arguably once of the most import gadgets to be born in ...

Radio Shack, the once-popular electronics chain, went bankrupt in 2015 and again in 2017. The physical stores, once a nerd’s paradise full of electronic components and computer gear, closed one by one ...

The first Radio Shack store came into existence in Boston in 1921. It was established by Theodore and Milton Deutschmann as a retail outlet for amateur or ham radio enthusiasts. The company was named ...

Faced with a broken Radio Shack laptop from 1983, IEEE Spectrum editor Stephen Cass didn't throw it away. Instead, he pulled out the logic board and replaced it with a modern microcontroller so he ...

Time was when Radio Shack was the exclusive domain of computer dorks, ham radio nerds and A/V geeks. But times have changed; today, tech is chic, and electronica, ubiquitous, even for mere lay folk.

It’s a pristine piece of Silicon Valley history — and it comes with a famous autograph. A check that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs made out to Radio Shack on July 23, 1976, just months after the ...

A 1976 check to Radio Shack signed by Steve Jobs is expected to sell for more than $20,000. Jobs famously did not give autographs, and a letter from him saying so sold for nearly $500,000. Radio Shack ...