Personal computers started to become a normal household item by the 1980s, with companies like Apple, Atari, IBM, and others ...

Got boxes of old electronics in the attic, garage, or your parents’ basement? A lot of that “junk” is just outdated 80s tech that nobody uses anymore. But to collectors, those same gadgets can mean ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From personal computers to handheld phones, the '80s launched more than just trends. Discover five inventions from the 1980s ...