Old school A look back at the sales training for Radio Shack's Model 100, a groundbreaking early laptop Cory Doctorow

video Log onto a BBS 1979-style with a TRS-80 and landline modem Andrea James

Weird Play this video at your next party. Don't ask questions. Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Radio Shack bankruptcy update: most customer data will be destroyed, not sold to pay creditors Xeni Jardin

Technology How Pong's inventor gave Woz a hack to bring color to the Apple II David Pescovitz

music THE BUREAU: Part Seven, "Lockdown in the Building, News of an Active Shooter Near the Cafeteria" — with Mr Quintron's Circuit-Bent Guitars Ethan Persoff

1980s These videos of Radio Shacks and Furry Conventions in the 1980s are incredible time capsules Mark Frauenfelder

music THE BUREAU: Part Six, The History of Telepathic Infant-Based Mind Control of U.S. Presidents Ethan Persoff

authors Fear and Soldering, an excerpt from Peter Bebergal's Strange Frequencies Gareth Branwyn

music How pioneering DJ Grandmaster Flash hacked together his first mixer David Pescovitz

Games The paleocomputing miracle of the 76477 Space Invaders sound effects chip Cory Doctorow

politics The white supremacist origins of "public choice theory," the bedrock of contemporary libertarian thought Cory Doctorow

Business Blame the US Retail Apocalypse on hedge funds and financialization, not Amazon and Walmart Cory Doctorow

Gadgets You can now buy CueCats on Amazon Prime Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Paper Girls volume 3: the all-girl, time-traveling Stranger Things gets even better Cory Doctorow

Business Bid on old computers, speakers, radios, and other junk from the bowels of RadioShack David Pescovitz

News Should police be able to access your cellphone location history without a warrant? Supreme Court to decide. Xeni Jardin

RadioShack gone rogue An Ohio RadioShack Facebook page says "We closed. F— all of you" Carla Sinclair

Business Radio Shack is bankrupt. Again. Cory Doctorow

commercials 1991 Radio Shack commercial for computers Mark Frauenfelder