The return of scrunchies and shoulder pads and the popularity of throwback shows such as “Stranger Things” left you pining for the 1980s? Now there’s a place you can go to actually relive the days ...

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 ...

Ah, the '80s. They may not have had the Internet revolution yet, but computers were still major characters in some of the biggest movies of the time. According to this supercut of '80s films — think ...

The dawn of the personal computer in the 1970s promised the greatest change in American instructional methods since the 19th century—which is when schools began to use standardized textbooks. While ...

One of the most common ways of comparing the processing power of some microcontroller or older smartphone in a fantastical ...

Even massive Sega fans would be forgiven for not being too familiar with the Sega AI Computer. After all, the usually obsessive documentation over at Sega Retro includes only the barest stub of an ...

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 ...

While unpacking some old boxes the other day, I ran across a computer I hadn’t seen in some time. It’s a tiny machine with an integrated chiclet keyboard in a cream-colored case about the size of two ...

VICE NDRCVR is a new game about taking down '80s drug cartels by using their computer systems against them. Revealed for the first time during IGN Expo, VICE NDRCVR evokes the likes of Hypnospace ...

[Alex Zaikin] made a modern reproduction of an early-80s Soviet hobbyist home computer. Although the design was open, indeed it was published in “Radio” magazine, the project was a mammoth undertaking ...

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 ...