We have just cleaned the latest donation to the museum: a 1972 MCS-8 (also known as the SIM8-01).

The MCS8 chassis accepted either an Intel 4004 processor board or an Intel 8008 processor board.

Our unit has the 8008, Intel’s first 8-bit microprocessor – very cool!

It also has a built-in EPROM burner.

We will add more to the wiki later, but for now, here are a few pics:

MCS8 Inside

MCS8-01 Processor Board

MCS8-01 PROM Burner Driver (MP7-03) Board

January 1981: Radio Shack introduces a home banking service in their official TRS-80 newsletter.

We dusted off our collection of Radio Shack’s TRS-80 Microcomputer News newsletter to bring you three newly-digitized issues. We’ve also reprocessed the existing PDFs to make them smaller (without a loss of quality) and — most importantly — searchable! That’s right, full-text searchable, right from your favorite PDF viewer.

You can preview and download all 14 issues on our wiki.

More issues to come! Eventually, the newsletter was published as a color, glossy magazine, and, eventually, we’ll scan those issues too and post them online.