$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 ...

They even had a built-in distribution system through the massively successful Radio Shack, which had more retail locations than McDonald’s. They dominated early personal computer sales by owning ...

Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1 computer with peripherals. Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1 Personal Computer. Object Details maker ... Also part of the system are two Mini-Disk drives that sold for $499 and a ...

1977: Radio Shack introduces the first mass-marketed, fully assembled personal computer, the TRS-80, with an operating system built by Bill Gates. 1981: John Roach named CEO. 1984: Radio Shack sells ...

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.

$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).