Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80 .

40 years ago on August 3 1977 Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80.

It is one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.

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The TRS-80 was sold exclusively @

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$600.00 in 1977 had the same buying power as $2,488.99 in 2017

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The TRS-80 had no hard drive and four kilobytes of memory
Radio Shack TRS-80
(Model 1)
CPU: Zilog Z-80A, 1.77 MHz
RAM: 4K, 16K max*
Ports: Cassette I/O, video,
Expansion connector*
Display: 12-inch monochrome monitor
64 X 16 text
Expansion: External Expansion Interface*
Storage: Cassette storage*
OS: BASIC in ROM*

• Additional capabilties with Expansion Interface

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TRS-80 one of the first products that came assembled
📌It included everything you need to have a real computer at home.

📌Radio Shack sold 10,000 units in the first month.

📌The first TRS-80 computers had no numeric keypad.

📌Cassette tapes loaded and saved your data and programs .

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An original TRS-80 computer is displayed at the National Museum of American History.