via Hackaday: Review: iFixit’s FixHub May Be The Last Soldering Iron You Ever Buy
Like many people who solder regularly, I decided years ago to upgrade from a basic…
Category: Radio Shack
via Hackaday: Happy Birthday to Dad, Retrocomputer Style
For those of us who lived through the early 8-bit computing revolution — the tail…
via HACKADAY: FauxTRS Is Definitely Not A Trash 80
Among the 8-bit home micro boom from the late 1970s through early 1980s, the introduction…
via HACKADAY: The 6809 Lives On in an FPGA
At one point, the Motorola 6809 seemed like a great CPU. At the time it…
via HACKADAY: A 65-in-1 the 2024 Way
If necessity is the mother of invention, nostalgia must be its stepmother, or its aunt…
The RadioShack story: from boom to bust to reboot
From its inception as a humble mail-order business catering to radio aficionados to its zenith…
via HACKADAY: Pi Pico Enhances RadioShack Computer Kit
While most of us now remember Radio Shack as a store that tried to force…
via HACKADAY: In Praise of Old Meters
We are spoiled with multimeters today. Even the cheapest meter you will get these days…
via HACKADAY: Brand-New PCB Makes Replica TRS-80 Possible
If like us, you missed out on the TRS-80 Model I back when it first…