Tandy/Radio Shack adverts
Tandy/Radio Shack
November 1977
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" (...
Tandy/Radio Shack
October 1978
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 appeared, with an expanded BASIC in ROM, now at 12K....
Tandy/Radio Shack
August 1979
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/Radio Shack
February 1980
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 ...
Tandy/Radio Shack
May 1982
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/Radio Shack
November 1982
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...
Tandy/Radio Shack
June 1983
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-...
Tandy/Radio Shack
18th August 1983
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...
Tandy/Radio Shack
December 1984
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/Radio Shack
March 1985
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...
Tandy/Radio Shack
December 1986
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...
Tandy/Radio Shack
April 1987
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...
Tandy/Radio Shack
May 1988
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...