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Having spent less than US$150,000 on development, Radio Shack announced the TRS-80 (Tandy Radio Shack) at a New York City press conference on August 3, 1977. [18] It cost US$399 (equivalent to $2,000 in 2023), or US$599 (equivalent to $3,000 in 2023) with a 12" monitor and a Radio Shack tape recorder; the most expensive product Radio Shack previously sold was a US$500 stereo.
The RadioShack TRS-80 Color Computer, later marketed as the Tandy Color Computer, is a series of home computers developed and sold by Tandy Corporation.Despite sharing a name with the earlier TRS-80, the Color Computer is a completely different system and a radical departure in design based on the Motorola 6809E processor rather than the Zilog Z80 of earlier models.
TRS-80 was a brand associated with several desktop microcomputer lines sold by Tandy Corporation through their Radio Shack stores. It was first used on the original TRS-80 (later known as the Model I), one of the earliest mass-produced personal computers. [1] However, Tandy later used the TRS-80 name on a number of different computer lines ...
Tandy/Radio Shack Computer Catalog Archive, "Tandy TRS 80 Models, Portable Computers & more" Archived August 16, 2022, at the Wayback Machine; TRS-80 Model 100 Owner's Manual, (1983) Tandy Corporation, Fort Worth Texas; BYTE Magazine April 1984, advertisement for Disk-Video Interface; BYTE Magazine May 1985, advertisement for Model 200
TRS-80 Model 4, 1983 non-gate array version. Tandy Corporation introduced the TRS-80 Model 4 on April 26, 1983 as the successor to the TRS-80 Model III.The Model 4 has a faster Z80A 4 MHz CPU, [5] larger video display of 80 columns by 24 rows, bigger keyboard, and can be upgraded to 128KB of RAM.
The TRS-80 Model II is a computer system launched by Tandy in October 1979, and targeted at the small-business market. It is not an upgrade of the original TRS-80 Model I, but a new system. The Model II was succeeded by the compatible TRS-80 Model 12 , Model 16 , Model 16B , and the Tandy 6000 .
In 1977, two years after the MITS Altair 8800, Radio Shack introduced the TRS-80, one of the first mass-produced personal computers. [56] This was a complete pre-assembled system at a time when many microcomputers were built from kits, backed by a nationwide retail chain when computer stores were in their infancy.
The Tandy Pocket Computer or TRS-80 Pocket Computer is a line of pocket computers sold by Tandy Corporation under the Tandy or Radio Shack TRS-80 brands. Although named after the TRS-80 line of computers, they were not compatible with any TRS-80 desktop computer and did not use the Z80 CPU.