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Kmart Electronics For the Kmart tech nostalgia nerd in all of us! A quirky place where I share Kmart tech history, memories & Kmart R&D AI tech prototypes.

Think KMC TVs, Soundesign stereos, Focal cameras & those sweet 20th century 8/16 bit computers, plus much much more!

When Kmart ditched the Focal brand in favor of store branding Kmart Electronics no longer became to niche retailer it on...
09/12/2025

When Kmart ditched the Focal brand in favor of store branding Kmart Electronics no longer became to niche retailer it once was. Thus, the we began to see less Kmart Memories…

In the Kmart Electronics department we have tons of great Kmart Technology brand products on sale, all guaranteed to be ...
09/11/2025

In the Kmart Electronics department we have tons of great Kmart Technology brand products on sale, all guaranteed to be part of those great Kmart Memories that we love to sell, at Kmart, the savings place.

Great Kmart Memories were made on this Focal branded Mini-DV Recorder that used the Japanese minidisc format. The record...
09/11/2025

Great Kmart Memories were made on this Focal branded Mini-DV Recorder that used the Japanese minidisc format. The recorder showcased the cutting edge Kmart Technology was developing in partnership with Japanese technology giants of the and .

Was it live or was it Memorex?
09/10/2025

Was it live or was it Memorex?

Few remember it, but Kmart Technology was on the threshold of expanding Kmart Electronics in the to include its own br...
09/09/2025

Few remember it, but Kmart Technology was on the threshold of expanding Kmart Electronics in the to include its own brand of MSX Home Computers, until leadership realized that it could never hope to compete against the Commodore 64. Had the brand been strong, Kmart Memories would have been amazing .

The Kmart Einstein was the grandfather of the K-Phone. WIRED magazine proclaimed it as “what the world has been waiting ...
09/06/2025

The Kmart Einstein was the grandfather of the K-Phone. WIRED magazine proclaimed it as “what the world has been waiting for!” As a result Kmart Memories took off as more people came to rely on the proprietary Kmart Technology software imbedded in the device that allowed them to do more than simply write to-do lists, which was what most other PDAs at the time did.

The best high quality generic tapes had the KMC brand on them for those Kmart Memories mix tapes we all made before the ...
09/05/2025

The best high quality generic tapes had the KMC brand on them for those Kmart Memories mix tapes we all made before the internet came along. Another fine example of Kmart Technology at its best.

Had the 64 been successful, branded 10 pack boxes would have surely followed!
09/05/2025

Had the 64 been successful, branded 10 pack boxes would have surely followed!

Focal branded digital cameras never happened. But if they had, we suspect they would have been modeled on the line o...
09/05/2025

Focal branded digital cameras never happened. But if they had, we suspect they would have been modeled on the line of chunky digital cameras that came out about the time Kodak and Kmart failed to see what the future was to bring.

What might have been, the 64…
09/05/2025

What might have been, the 64…

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