Negative Space: TRS-80
- 80-Micro and the TRS-80, 1983-1984
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I’m going through some old 80-Micro magazines, and two editorials a year apart caught my eye.
- Baseball in the rain
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In 1980, after I bought a personal computer, I wrote a simple computer program in BASIC and sold it to one of the many magazines at the time. To the second-major newspaper of the area, this was a big deal.
- Discretely and with quiet strength: the Underwood Champion Portable
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The ultimate distraction-free writing app is a typewriter.
- Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution
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David and Theresa Welsh wrote some of the first great software for the TRS-80, and knew a lot of the other people who were also writing great software. In Priming the Pump, they talk about the history of personal computers and the first non-kit mass-market personal computer, the TRS-80 Model I.
- Priming the Pump: TRS-80 slide show
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David and Theresa Welsh have created a fascinating slide show of the TRS-80 era.
- Radio Shack advertises the Color Computer vs. the Model III
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This Radio Shack ad, from the January 1981 creative computing is a good example of their strange ideas about what would sell.
- The Radio Shack Postal Service
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What if Radio Shack had been granted a monopoly on computers in 1981? They’d probably look a lot like the United States Postal Service.
- Tandy Assembly 2018
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Tandy Assembly was earlier this November, and I have never seen so many Radio Shack computers in one spot. Also, my love affair with daisy wheels is rekindled.
More Information
- Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution• (paperback)
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I’m only twenty-five pages into this book, and I’m already hooked. This is a great book about the early days of the microcomputer industry, the days when the TRS-80 was the only fully off-the-shelf non-kit computer, when Wayne Green was one of the biggest magazine publishers in the United States, and when having a computer meant having friends over to play around at programming. (David Welsh and Theresa Welsh)
