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 ...

Several generations of home electronics hobbyists, ham radio enthusiasts and computer nerds spent their growth-spurt years haunting their local RadioShack stores. They can’t be happy about the ...

CB radio, r/c cars, music cassettes, crystal radio sets, satellite TV, electronic construction sets (Kosmos was popular) etc. That all was still common at the time. There even was a nice computer ...

CPU: 0.89 MHz Motorola 6809E RAM: 4K-16K Price: $399 (about $1,151 today, adjusted) Three years after the debut of its first PC, RadioShack launched an entirely new platform, the Color Computer ...

Radio Shack mailed out more than 30 million product catalogs in those days, with Asimov garnering the most responses of any of their pitchmen. (The company also used Incredible Hulk star Bill Bixby.) ...

Such is the story of Tandy and its TRS-80 Pocket Computer. Sold exclusively through Radio Shack, the TRS-80 was part of a a new generation of tiny, lightweight personal computers you could take on ...

Radio Shack’s TRS-80 Model 100 computer—the first successful laptop, introduced in 1983–is both respected and loved. But it’s an even more important computer than it generally gets credit for.

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 ...

The only thing that doesn't make much sense to me is using a teensy 4.1 for the keyboard; that's a Cortex M7 running at 600 MHz, an insane amount of overkill. A teensy 2 or pi pico would do just ...