Tandy/Radio Shack adverts

The first complete, low-cost microcomputer system for business, home or education - TRS-80

Technically, it wasn't - the Commodore PET was launched several months before the TRS-80 at the January Consumer Electronics Show and as such was the first of the "1997 Trinity" (...

TRS-80 - The biggest name in little computers. Complete and ready to go NOW!

It's another advert for one of the "1977 Trinity" - the Z80-based Tandy TRS-80. A year after its launch, the Level-II system had appeared, with an expanded BASIC in ROM, now at ...

New low price for Level 1 BASIC 4K RAM

The TRS-80 was one of the "1977 Trinity" - which also included the Commodore PET and the Apple II. They were the first three modern personal computers - micros that could be taken...

Tandy - new lower prices on the TRS-80

Tandy had announced its follow-up to the 1977 TRS-80 Model 1 at the end of 1979 and was expecting to take orders from the beginning of 1980. Even so, it wasn't initially expecting ...

Simplify your bookkeeping with this $3432 Radio Shack TRS-80 Computer System

Here's another advert from Tandy/Radio Shack for the Model III variant of its TRS-80, or Trash-80 - the original version of which had been launched back in 1977. It was not uncom...

Tandy TRS-80 Word Processing System

There was a phase for a few years where the idea of microcomputers being general-purpose machines still hadn't caught in with some sectors of the market, and so these general-purp...

Introducing the Tandy Micro Executive Workstation

Proving that it's possible to stretch out a model name to any possible extreme, comes the "Micro Executive Work Station" (MEWS), otherwise known as the TRS-80 Model 100 - the TRS-...

New TRS-80 Model 4 - from Tandy

Proving that sometimes the same model can live on seemingly for ever, at least in name, is this advert for the TRS-80 Model 4. The original TRS-80, one of the "1977 Trinity", had...

Here's an up-front saving on the Tandy 16K Colour Computer 2

Here's a festively-themed advert for the second version of Tandy's Colour Computer 2, or "CoCo". With £20 off coz it's Christmas, the CoCo was available for only £99.95 - only £...

Tandy Model 4P - Power and portability at a truly unbeatable price!

It wasn't until 1986 that Tandy/Radio Shack officially dropped both the Radio Shack part of the company name, as well as the TRS designation that had been part of its naming schem...

The New Tandy 102: Technology ni yoru shinpo

It's three years since Tandy launched its TRS-80/100 portable computer, and it's back with an updated model, which is smaller and now comes with a built-in modem. It's also compl...

Available now! The Tandy 1000EX

Pitched as a competitor to IBM's ultimately-doomed PC Jr., Tandy's 1000 EX was a version of its Tandy 1000 IBM-compatible PC, with everything built into a home-friendly all-in-one...

How good are Tandy computers? Ask someone who's bought two million of them

Tandy's TRS-80 - the Tandy Radio Shack/Z80 - was one of the first three "appliance" computers - those you could take out of a box, plug in and use right away - ever, when it was l...