Cult of Mac

Today in Apple history: World’s first Apple killer goes on sale

August 3, 1977: The Tandy TRS-80 personal computer makes its debut. The first affordable, mass-market computer gives the Apple 1 some serious competition. The success of Tandy’s TRS-80 built on the ...
Gizmodo

Tandy TRS-80: The Budget Computer

Even back then, there were computers for people who couldn’t afford the more expensive stuff. Take this Tandy, which costs little more than a upgraded Netbook today. From Core Memory, photographed by ...
CNET

Unboxing the TRS-80 Color Computer 2

Grab your rose-tinted glasses and get your data cassettes ready as CNET Australia's Seamus Byrne unboxes the not-so-classic 1980s home computer, the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer 2. Seamus Byrne ...
CNN

A 35th-anniversary salute to Radio Shack’s TRS-80

Quick – name the most important personal computer of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Those of you who mentioned the legendary Apple II – that’s fine. I respect your decision. Forced to think ...
Time

Please Don’t Call It Trash-80: A 35th Anniversary Salute to Radio Shack’s TRS-80

Quick — name the most important personal computer of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Those of you who mentioned the legendary Apple II–that’s fine. I respect your decision. Forced to think objectively ...
PC Magazine

Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer (1980)

For over half a century, if you wanted to buy electronics parts and gadgets in the United States, one retail chain loomed large above all others: RadioShack. Its combination of distinctive, often ...
PC Magazine

Golden Age of TRS-80: A Look Back at RadioShack Computers

For over half a century, if you wanted to buy electronics parts and gadgets in the United States, one retail chain loomed large above all others: RadioShack. Its combination of distinctive, often ...
SFGate

Ah, TRS-80: Thanks for the memory

2002-02-15 04:00:00 PDT Pleasant Hill-- Get a load of this, you Pentium people. There's this guy in Pleasant Hill who has made a nice little niche and a name for himself in the wired world by almost ...
Neowin

A quick look back at the Radio Shack TRS-80 PC on its 46th anniversary0 0

It may be hard to believe now, but back in 1977, the company that owned the Radio Shack retail store business helped begin the personal computer revolution. Along with the Apple II, which we talked ...
Orlando Sentinel

THE TRASH 80 COMPUTER YOU COULD PICK IT UP, CARRY IT

A maddeningly slow 300-baud modem. And just 4 kilobytes of memory. (For comparison, todays 8-megabyte computers which grow wimpier by the week, given the advancing state of computer technology have ...
Hackaday

TRS-80 Colour Computer

The Motorola 6809, released in 1978, was the follow-up to their 6800 from four years earlier. It’s a powerful little chip with many 16-bit features, although it’s an 8-bit micro at heart. Despite its ...