Many computer users got their start with the #TRS-80, the #Tandy Color Computer, or the Model 100 portable computer. This program looks at the role Radio Shack played in the early launch of personal computers and the hordes of users who still love their old Tandy PCs. Featured demonstrations include the Tandy 2500 SX/20, the Tandy 4033 LX, the GRiD 1550cd, the GRiD 325sc. Also shown is the original TRS-80 and some of the earlier cassette based software such as Dancing Demon. Guests include Howard Elias, Vice President of Tandy Computers and Mark Paulson, leader of the Color Computer User's Group. Originally broadcasted in 1991.

What started as a partnership to create a CD add-on for the super nintendo, quickly morphed into open feud between the biggest player in gaming, Nintendo, and electronics giant, Sony. What followed was the birth of one of the most iconic brands in gaming and some of the most important games ever released. This is the Story of the Playstation.

A documentary on the making of Super Mario World, the launch of the Super Nintendo, and how the game perfected the concepts of the Super Mario series.

The Vintage Computer Federation is a 501(c)3 non-profit. Our mission is to preserve computing history through education, outreach, conservation, and restoration. We strive to accomplish this through family friendly hands-on activities at our museum, at regional and global events, and by fostering and nurturing the expansion of our on-line and in-person communities.

#Libravatar is a Federated Open Source Service which delivers your avatar (profile picture) to other websites, as an alternative to #Gravatar. If you create an account with us, your photo could start popping up next to forum posts or blog comments on any site where you left your email address.

This is a program for the Tandy / Radio-Shack TRS-80 Color Computer to perform RSA key generation, encryption, and decryption. The code is all written in 6809 assembly. It will operate with up to 2048 bit keys.

It should work on any CoCo with at least 32kb of memory. 16k CoCos should work for smaller keysizes.

Lego celebrates Atari’s 50th anniversary with a new Lego Atari 2600/VCS set coming this August.

There are a few ways to test operation of a Color Computer. This may be useful when buying or selling a CoCo, when taking out old equipment from storage or simply to test your daily driver.

Simple screen sharing over LAN using a RaspberryPi or display computer connected to a projector or TV.

Dramatisation of the race for home computer supremacy in the 1980s, documenting the lengthy rivalry between Clive Sinclair (Alexander Armstrong) and Chris Curry (Martin Freeman).

Bryan Sparks, President of #DRDOS, clarified the license of CP/M: "Let this paragraph represent a right to use, distribute, modify, enhance, and otherwise make available in a nonexclusive manner CP/M and its derivatives. [...]"

In this video, we'll see how to use a Wombat ADB to USB and vice versae converter. We'll see also how to configure and how to upgrade the firmware. I discovered this device from BMOW (Big Mess O' Wires) website. Of course I'm not affiliated and I'm just a customer who provide feedback on it.

An as yet unnamed project which aims to bring a pre-emptive multi-tasking graphical operating system to the 8-bit Atari.

A collection of past and current Apple II FTP sites. ftp.apple.asimov.net is synced daily.

A definitive book about the first half-century of interactive fiction.

Use your old Apple or NeXT ADB keyboard on a USB system. Mini-DIN 4 to micro-USB.

Yet another javascript emulator, this time for the legendary ahem MC-10 microcomputer by Tandy Corp!

Purely the result of one persons sentimental journey into his childhood days of PEEK'ing and POKE'ing. Source is available on #GitHub.

In Stranger Things season two episode eight (“The Mind Flayer”), there is a need for them to restart a computer system. Radio Shack Bob says someone needs to know BASIC to do this. (Oh, really, writers?) This leads to a scene where Bob gets the system going by … typing in a #BASIC program.

Do you want to share the links you discover? Shaarli is a minimalist link sharing service that you can install on your own server. It is designed to be personal (single-user), fast and handy.

#DynoSprite is a sophisticated, object oriented game engine for the #Tandy #ColorComputer 3, written in #6809 assembly language. The build system runs on a modern computer to compile, assemble, and package a final disk image which can be loaded into an emulator or copied onto a physical disk for running on a real #CoCo 3. The resulting CoCo program requires a 512K Coco 3 with a disk system (either 5 1/4" floppy drive, or CoCo SDC card, or CoCoNET ROM Pak, or similar.