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The Tandy Color Computer came with analog joysticks, quite unlike most computers and consoles of the early 1980s. Many games of the era actually worked best with digital input, so [Gadget Reboot] ...
When the TRS-80 — a personal computer from Tandy that would be sold via their RadioShack stores, hence TRS — went on sale on Aug. 3 in 1977, computers weren’t exactly new. The Apple I had been ...
The “trash 80” jokes are vanishing, and in meetings with business customers Tandy Corp. is looking and sounding more like a buttoned-down International Business Machines Corp. than a short-sleeved, ...
[John W. Linville] wrote a digital video player for the Tandy Color Computer (aka TRS-80). The decades-old hardware performs quite well considering the limited resource he had to work with. This is ...
Even back then, there were computers for people who couldn’t afford the more expensive stuff. Take this Tandy, which costs little more than a upgraded Netbook today. From Core Memory, photographed by ...
This is way, way back old school. Back in the day in the '80s, when other kids had popular computers like the C= 64 or the Amiga, I had a Tandy Color Computer (aka Coco). It wasn't as popular and it ...
For the last two months my writer’s workhorse has been a Tandy 3000 on loan from its manufacturer, and I’ll tell you: If I were in the market for a new computer today, I’d be in the nearest Radio ...
With RadioShack filing for bankruptcy and several stores in our area closing, it may be tough to remember the times when the business was booming. In our Video Vault, Jane Adonizio reports when the ...
Wow, a relic. That was my second computer... my first was a Tandy Color Computer 2.<BR><BR>I'd sign up for a Color Computer forum, and announce that you have one, either to give away or sell. Yahoo ...
In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, if someone wanted to buy a personal computer, they had to make a trip down to a local computer store to physically check out what was available. Once there, ...