This Is Considered One Of The Most Influential Pieces Of Tech To Come Out Of The '80s

Previous decades laid the groundwork for the wide adoption of the internet in the '90s. This piece of '80s technology was a ...
CRN

CRN 30th Anniversary: 10 Computer Ads From The Early 1980s

CRN was launched in 1982, back then it was known as Computer Retail News. As part of our 30th anniversary, we look back at some memorable computer ads from the early days of CRN, like this Texas ...
Wall Street Journal

The Beige of Apple’s ’80s Computers Makes a Comeback

IN MY IDEA OF HELL, everything is the color of a 1983 Apple IIe computer. And yet I can see the attraction of ColorWare’s limited-edition Retro Apple iMac, a standard Apple-issued model that has been ...
Engadget

Radiohead album hides an app that only runs on an '80s computer

In the age of the hipster, dust-covered and irrelevant mediums like the vinyl and cassette tape have slowly been given a new lease of life. Now, thanks to Radiohead, it looks like popular British ...
The Eagle

Game over

Top: Don Gilman, a pioneer of early computer games, holds up an "antique" Radio Shack laptop used widely in the Õ80s. The piece belongs to "Computer Game Making in the '80s," an exhibit on display at ...
Hackaday

Copying Commodore Data Tapes, 40 Years Late

Unless you handle the backups for a large corporation, bank, or government entity, you likely haven’t stored much data to tape recently. But magnetic storage used to be fairly mainstream back in the ...