Radio Shack introduces the exciting new computer for the 80s. Designed in the great TRS-80 tradition, the Model III is beautiful, functional, expandable, and afforable. Since memoy can range from 4 to 48K RAM, Model III can fill a wide range of needs. Your system can be exapnded so e...
When playing games that use the TRS-80 arrow keys, you soon encounter a problem. There is no right arrow key on the System 80. You can generate a tab by using the shift, CTRL, and I keys simultaneously, but this is useless in game playing. Adding a switch and running two wires to ...
Tandy announced the TRS-80 Color Computer on July 31, 1980. The initial model (catalog number 26-3001) shipped with 4K of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) and an 8k Microsoft BASIC interpreter in ROM. Its price was $399. Within a few months, Radio Sha
I originally played Bedlam on my TRS-80 Color Computer, from an audio cassette, when we first got it. Years later, through the magic of emulation, I was finally able to defeat the game and escape. I felt pretty good about this achievement until I discovered that there are apparently two ...
Even if you didn’t own a TRS-80, the widespread footprint of Radio Shack in malls meant that if you are old enough, it is a good bet you have seen one and maybe even played with one. The games were crude, but state-of-the-art for 1982. If you wanted business software, that ...
The TRS-80 Micro Computer System (renamed the Model I) is a desktop microcomputer launched in 1977 and sold by Tandy Corporation.
“Even if you bought a machine that was pretty much self-functioning like the TRS-80 was, just learning to do anything on it was difficult. There was limited software on it, you could play a few games, but word processing was rudimentary and had a lot of codes that yo...
80 to our big screen TV. It's kind of amazing when you think about it -- that computer is 42 years old, and I can connect it to a brand new flat panel display. My daughter laughed her head off at these "cheesy old games." She said something like "Dad, how could you guys ...
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This game originally came out in the late 70's and early 80's. It was released by Radio Shackfor the TRS-80 Model I or Model III. Since I'm a huge fan of adventure games... and this is one of the few I first played on myfirst computer during my Chirstmas break from high schoo...