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 ...

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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. It ...

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 ...

The Apple Lisa, the IBM PCjr and the Tandy TRS-80 Model 100 laptop all were introduced in the same year, 1983 -- eons ago by computer standards. Eighteen years have come and gone; entire industries ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Apple Lisa, the IBM PCjr and the Tandy TRS-80 Model 100 laptop all were introduced during the same year, 1983 -- eons ago by computer standards. Eighteen years have come and gone; ...

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 ...

“A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.” — Nancy Gibbs Last week’s news about RadioShack going into bankruptcy and preparing to close many of ...

He helped make the home computer ubiquitous by introducing the fully assembled Tandy TRS-80, which was so novel at the time that it became a museum piece. By Sam Roberts John Roach, a marketing ...

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 ...

John Roach — the former chief of RadioShack parent company Tandy who later became one of the lead proponents of the personal computer — has died at 83, reported The New York Times. The Fort Worth ...