Younger generations weren't around when the best-selling desktop computer of all time launched. Officially recognized by Guinness World Records, the Commodore 64 (C64) arrived amid much intrigue in ...

Although hard disks weren’t a common feature yet in many home computers in the 1980s, they were becoming increasingly more ...

For most people, the IBM name is a fragment of the past, something that only comes up in old '80s sci-fi movies or in documentaries of ancient tech. The company's still up and running, and it does ...

Grab your rose-tinted glasses and get your data cassettes ready as CNET Australia’s Seamus Byrne unboxes the not-so-classic 1980s home computer, the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer 2. From the data ...

Back in the 80s, buying a home computer could easily mean an inflation-adjusted cost of thousands of dollars (or your equivalent currency unit of choice), and all for an 8-bit machine that might not ...

The 1980s were a great decade, especially for groundbreaking tech innovations. It gave us consumer electronics like the Sony Walkman, compact discs, and mobile phones, and also introduced medical ...

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 ...

Nintendo introduced the world’s first handheld clamshell gaming system, the Game & Watch, in 1980. The company continued that design with the Game Boy Advance SP, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS, but ...

August 3, 1977: The Tandy TRS-80 personal computer makes its debut. The first affordable, mass-market computer gives the Apple 1 some serious competition. The success of Tandy’s TRS-80 built on the ...