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 ...

One of my clients has a device with a model number of TRS-21. I instinctively call it the Trash 21 (back in the day, many people referred to the TRS-80 as the Trash 80 because of its reputation ...

I was in a bind...the ONLY computer shop in town closed at 5PM...and i was in desparate need of some heatsink compound...So, i went to Radio Shack, and... Log in Register Search ...

TRS stood for Tandy Radio Shack. while the 80 was a reference to the PC's processor, the Zilog Z80. The 8-bit chip had 8,500 transistors and had a clock speed of 1.774 MHz.

In the summer of 1977, Radio Shack introduced the TRS-80 for $599. This offering included a BASIC language interpreter, four kilobytes of RAM, a Zilog Z80 processor at 1.77 megahertz, a twelve-inch ...

One of my many undistinguished postings was a summer job as an assistant manager of a Radio Shack (then spelled as two words) in a strip mall in Rock Springs, Wyo. Dante couldn’t think of a ...

Radio Shack had a long history of buying things overseas, having their name slapped on them, and selling them in the United States. That was the case with the Tandy Pocket Computers, which were in ...

Short answer: Radio Shack proper still lives online, albeit with a slimmer catalog. Meanwhile, about 400 stores bearing the Radio Shack name operate independently of REV, Associated Press reports.

RadioShack is getting a marketing makeover. Starting August 6, the venerable electronics retailer will change its name to “The Shack,” a rebranding move designed to shed the last-century ...

FORT WORTH, TEXAS – RadioShack’s humble beginnings as a small, 1920s Boston ham radio shop and mail-order business belie its later role as an American retail icon with 7,000 stores and a bevy of ...