August 3, 1977: The Tandy TRS-80 personal computer makes its debut. The first affordable, mass-market computer gives the Apple 1 some serious competition. The success of Tandy’s TRS-80 built on the ...

It may be hard to believe now, but back in 1977, the company that owned the Radio Shack retail store business helped begin the personal computer revolution. Along with the Apple II, which we talked ...

John Roach — the former chief of RadioShack parent company Tandy who later became one of the lead proponents of the personal computer — has died at 83, reported The New York Times. The Fort Worth ...

Personal computer (PC) era pioneer John Roach passed away in Fort Worth, Texas, at 83. Though widely acknowledged as a marketing visionary, he is known to have played a pioneering role in ...

He helped make the home computer ubiquitous by introducing the fully assembled Tandy TRS-80, which was so novel at the time that it became a museum piece. By Sam Roberts John Roach, a marketing ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the early 1970s, most personal ...

1977 was a special year for computing history; this year saw the release of the 8085 following the release of the Z80 a year before. Three companies would launch their first true production computers ...

Former chairman and CEO of Tandy Corp. and former chairman of the TCU Board of Trustees poses with one of the original Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 4P portable micro computers in his office in June 2021.

Do you remember when you purchased your first personal computer? Today we take for granted having a computer in our homes and all the world’s information at our fingertips. But this wasn’t always the ...