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RadioShack (formerly written as Radio Shack) is an American electronics retailer which was established in 1921 as an amateur radio mail-order business. Its parent company, Radio Shack Corporation, was purchased by Tandy Corporation in 1962, shifting its focus from radio equipment to hobbyist electronic components.
The TRS-80 Micro Computer System (TRS-80, later renamed the Model I to distinguish it from successors) is a desktop microcomputer launched in 1977 and sold by Tandy Corporation through their Radio Shack stores. The name is an abbreviation of Tandy Radio Shack, Z80 [microprocessor]. [4]
By April 1963, the Tandy Corporation acquired management control of RadioShack Corporation and within two years, RadioShack's $4 million (~$30.5 million in 2023) loss was turned into a profit under the leadership of Charles Tandy.
Charles Tandy’s vision for the future of the consumer electronics industry shifted Radio Shack’s focus from radio equipment to hobbyist electronic components and emerging technologies, changing its business from fundamentally mail-order to Main Street, everywhere.
In 1975, Don French, a buyer for the company Radio Shack (a successful American chain of electronics stores owned by Tandy Corp.) on the West Coast, purchased a MITS Altair computer, which he used for inventory control. He became so fond of the new toy that he began designing his own kit.
This early consumer PC gained its name from a combination of the store name with that of its parent company, Tandy, resulting in "Tandy/RadioShack" or TRS. Logically, the machine gained its...
The Fort Worth-based Tandy Corp. has the broadest reach of any computer manufacturer through its 8,012 Radio Shack stores. The firm introduced its first small computer, the TRS–80, in 1977.
Tandy Radio Shack Corporation (TRS) TRS was formed by the 1963 merger of Tandy Leather Company and Radio Shack (which was almost bankrupt at the time). They dealt in many different electronic products, but introduced two computers that were important in fostering the personal computer revolution.
Don French, a buyer for the consumer electronics chain Tandy Radio Shack (TRS), believed that Radio Shack should offer an assembled personal computer and hired engineer Steve Leininger to...
Radio Shack. The richest ecosystem of the era sprung up around the TRS-80. You could buy TRS-80 hard drives and networking gear and kits to give the system lower-case letters. (Radio Shack...