The other day, I was reading this old Compute!’s Gazette magazine from 1983. And I saw this card you could send off for more information. It said, “No Postage Necessary if Mailed in the USA.” So I wondered, “What would
Open the pod bay doors, HAL. I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that. Back during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s we were mesmerized by computerized voices in our movies and television shows. Negative, a close copy. No alternative
[theme music] Tandy/Radio Shack started selling computers in the late 1970s in competition with machines from Apple and Commodore. This was the TRS-80 series of computers which ended up being rather popular with home users, as well as schools and
Have you ever had an old computer that the plastic had turned yellow or brown? And you wanted to restore it to make it look new again? Well, for years it was thought to be impossible. The culprit, of course,
Hello, and welcome to another episode of The 8-Bit Guy. So, today, I’m going to be doing another computer restoration project. Now, I am well known for doing computer restorations and most people assume that I know what I’m doing.
Radio Shack was a big player in the computer business starting in the 1970s with the TRS-80 line of computers. In fact, by the mid 80’s Radio Shack was selling at least a half dozen different computers. And I don’t
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the 8-Bit Guy. Today, I want to show you a rather unusual line of portable computers known as the laser portable computers and these were manufactured from the mid 1980s all the way
Hello, and welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. I cannot begin to tell you how happy it makes me that there are only a handful of these left. If you’re new here, a quick introduction is
Here’s a computer I’ve had for a couple years now, but I haven’t really done anything with. Because instead, I’ve been mostly using my Tandy 1000 SL, which you can see in the background there. This is its predecessor, the
Here’s a computer I’ve had for a couple years now, but I haven’t really done anything with. Because instead, I’ve been mostly using my Tandy 1000 SL, which you can see in the background there. This is its predecessor, the