TRS-80 Model 1 (and Model 100) Year created: 1977. Creator: Tandy Corporation. Cost: $399 ($599 with monitor) Memory: 4KB ROM. Processor: Z-80 ...

On August 3, 1977, Tandy announced its TRS-80 Model 1 PC via its Radio Shack stores, which helped to begin the personal computer technology revolution. Tandy later lost ground to other PC makers.

Radio Shack parent company Tandy Corporation – which started out as a maker of products for leather handicrafters – was run by Charles Tandy. His main role in the TRS-80 project seems to have ...

On August 3, 2012 we should have paid some homage to the 35th anniversary of the TRS-80 computer from Radio Shack. At one time during the history of the personal computer the TRS-80 dominated the ...

John Roach, a marketing visionary who helped make the home computer ubiquitous in the late 1970s by introducing the fully assembled Tandy TRS-80 for $599.95 or less through RadioShack chain stores ...

The very first TRS-80 came equipped with a Zilog 80 processor, 4 KB DRAM, 64-character per line video monitor and Level I BASIC language interpreter. Its keyboard could only type uppercase letters .

TRS-80. Commodore PET. Apple II . ... Commodore PET and Tandy TRS-80, which were offered pre-assembled with a monitor and keyboard. The IBM PC, however, ...

In the 80s, Radio Shack sold a line of Tandy personal computers in its stores. Tandy machines were sometimes mocked -- 1980's TRS-80 model was derided as the "Trash-80" by critics -- but they were ...

Radio Shack parent company Tandy Corporation – which started out as a maker of products for leather handicrafters – was run by Charles Tandy. His main role in the TRS-80 project seems to have ...

His team presented the original TRS-80 prototype — cobbled together from a black-and-white RCA monitor, a keyboard and a cassette recorder — to Tandy’s chief executive, Charles Tandy, and to ...