While most of us now remember Radio Shack as a store that tried to force us to buy batteries and cell phones whenever we went to buy a few transistors and other circuit components, for a time it was ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This CCR-82 Computer Cassette ...

TRS-80 Portable Computer Model 100 with matching cassette recorder for data/program storage, 32K RAM, Multiplan (Spreadsheet) ROM installed, with manual, faux leatherette case and Bluetooth enabled.

It may be hard to believe now, but back in 1977, the company that owned the Radio Shack retail store business helped begin the personal computer revolution. Along with the Apple II, which we talked ...

Mention the name Radio Shack, and one thinks of the now-defunct retailer that sold electronics hobbyist kits and parts for the DIYers for many years. However, the retailer made a foray into the then ...

A lot of people had a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I. This was a “home computer” built into a keyboard that needed an external monitor or TV set. Later, Radio Shack would update the computer to a model ...

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 ...

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 ...

RadioShack is on its last legs, reportedly in talks to shut down and sell its storefronts to companies like Sprint and Amazon. For many technologists, this is much more than just the loss of another ...

The top graphic above shows a pretty pathetic (by today’s standards) “transportable” and “completely portable” Model 4P computer from the 1984 Radio Shack computer catalog, which was advertised as the ...