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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1980s, there was a truly staggering amount of choice for a consumer looking to purchase a home computer. On the high end, something like an Apple Lisa, a business-class IBM PC, or a workstat… ...

A check signed by Apple Inc AAPL co-founder Steve Jobs to Radio Shack in 1976 is projected to sell for over $20,000 at auction. What Happened: This check, dated three months after Apple’s ...

A 1976 check to Radio Shack signed by Steve Jobs is expected to sell for more than $20,000. Jobs famously did not give autographs, and a letter from him saying so sold for nearly $500,000.

Steve Jobs wrote a check in 1976 to Radio Shack. ... an Apple Computer check made out to Ramlor Inc. in 1976 and signed by both Jobs and co-founder Steve Wozniak sold at auction for $135,261.