What Would Best Buy Do With Radio Shack?Brian Barrett
At some point we gathered around a firepit behind the house and had one of those ceremonies where everyone writes on a piece of paper something they want to let go of from the past year and then one by one, say a few words, and toss that burden into the fire. When it was my tur...
3This massive pool of RAM was only recently surpassed by a cutting-edge desktop computing device called the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I. In 1977. Though you did need the optional expansion card interface to get the extra 32kB of RAM. This thing also had the same processor as the TI-83,...
Yet 1979 was THE year for Post-Punk in the UK. See how that works? Mark any date and any given cultural trend is either ascendant or descendant. That’s why it is so much bullshit to say “Music sucked in the 70s.” Because it did not suck, not by a long shot. 1979 was the ...
There are three main types of cordless headphones: radio frequency headphones, infrared light wave headphones, and Bluetooth®...
What they did not succeed in doing was to combine those elements into one narrative. The Guardian’s “Firestorm,” on the other hand, melds text and audio and video in a way that fulfills the 15-year-old promise that the Web will usher in a new form of multimedia storytelling. In “...
While learning to do so, you realize quickly that you don’t know everything. Even if you might know calculus, the 16 year old burnout at Best Buy knows more about the basics of laundry machines and what the settings actually mean. Setting that shit on cold and letting it ride doesn’...
Already, it’s the first Sunday of Advent. Another year drawing to a close. We had a restful Thanksgiving here camping on the California Delta. Today we will pack up and go home, back to the familiar routine, which can be comforting in its own way. ...
Next year, the Hawks--- founding member Mark Wenner (harmonica/vocals), Mark Stutso (drums/vocals) and new members Dan Hovey (guitar/vocals) and Paul Pisciotta (bass/vocals) --- will celebrate their 50th anniversary sounding just as great as they ever have. Their latest release, Tryin’ ...
Shacknews is back, refreshed, and ready for another year of good gaming coverage. It was a good break we had to cap off 2020 and flush it down the drain, and many games were played. With that in mind, it seems only natural to keep things rolling with a discussion of what we expect...