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 ...

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 ...

Even back then, there were computers for people who couldn’t afford the more expensive stuff. Take this Tandy, which costs little more than a upgraded Netbook today. From Core Memory, photographed by ...

Quick – name the most important personal computer of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Those of you who mentioned the legendary Apple II – that’s fine. I respect your decision. Forced to think ...

To call [Glen Kleinschmidt] a vintage computing enthusiast would be an understatement. Who else would add the ability to control and address multiple VGA monitors to a rack-mounted TRS-80 Model 1?

I wonder how hard it might be to modify a TRS-80 Model 4 to take something like an Asus A7V and a Tbird 1.1.. An all in one modernized "museum" piece.. Imagine the looks bringing one of these into a ...

I can't remember the years like most of you, but I started with an TRS-80 Model 1<BR>TRS-80 Model 3<BR>Apple //e<BR>128k<BR>Fat Mac<BR>Mac SE<BR>Mac SE30<BR>Mac IIsi ...

The TRS-80 Model 100 was released in 1983, featuring an 80C85 CPU that can run at 5 MHz, but only runs at a hair under 2.5 MHz, due to 1:2 divider on the input clock. Why cut the speed in half? It has ...