$599.95 got you a system with Radio Shack’s 12″ black-and-white display, 4KB of memory and a cassette-tape deck which let you save and load programs (albeit very slowly and very unreliably).

I never had one of those systems, but at my first newspaper job we wrote stories on Radio Shack TRS-80 computers with big floppy disks and Electric Pencil, the first word processor for home ...

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 color computer 1 Articles . Pac Man On The Colour Computer 3. September 6, 2017 by Lewin Day 12 Comments ... industrial systems, and yes — arcade machines. However, ...

Apple's other cofounder, Steve Wozniak, used a Radio Shack computer system in 1972 to build his "Blue Box" – a device for making illegal long-distance calls.

A check signed by Apple Inc AAPL co-founder Steve Jobs to Radio Shack in 1976 is projected to sell for over $20,000 at auction. What Happened: This check, dated three months after Apple’s ...

That’s why 1) I should give these Mindstorms away to a local high school robot team, and 2) I won’t be spending the $300 to purchase the new Radio Shack Vex Robotics Design System. Still, it ...