Tandy

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Home Computers

102 — The Tandy 102 emerged not as a standalone product but as one component in a broader mobility strategy, explicitly framed in Radio Shack’s literature as a replacement for the…
TRS-80 CoCo 2 — The machine known officially as the 64K Direct Video CoCo2 carried the model number 26-3128 and shipped with 64K of RAM, distinguishing it within the CoCo lineup by its video…
TRS-80 Color Computer — Publicly unveiled on July 31, 1980, alongside the TRS-80 Model III and a pocket computer, the Color Computer began appearing in Radio Shack retail locations by September.
TRS-80 Model 100 — Manufactured by Tandy Corporation and sold through Radio Shack, the TRS-80 Model 100 was a portable computer equipped with Microsoft-written ROM software and a built-in…
TRS-80 Model 4P — The TRS-80 Model 4P was Radio Shack’s bid to make the desktop TRS-80 Model 4 truly mobile without sacrificing usability.
TRS-80 Model I — The Model I ran on a Z80 machine-language processor and supported RAM configurations of 16K, 32K, and 48K, as listed in a 1982 pricing and specifications table that grouped…
TRS-80 Model II — Radio Shack introduced the TRS-80 Model II as a “completely new microcomputer” and the “powerful 'brother' to the TRS-80 family,” distancing it from its earlier hobbyist…
TRS-80 Model III — The TRS-80 Model III was a ROM-based computer system built around the Z-80 microprocessor, marketed by Radio Shack, a division of Tandy Corporation .

Personal Computers

1000 — The Tandy 1000 emerged as a deliberate pivot from Tandy’s proprietary Tandy 2000 line, aligning instead with IBM PC standards to capture a broader software ecosystem.
1000 SX — Three distinct price points for the single-drive 384K configuration appear in period documentation: $499.00* in one source, $649.00 in three others, and $679.00 in one.
1000 TX — Documented across multiple issues of The Rainbow between 1988 and 1990, the Tandy 1000 TX appears consistently in product listings and compatibility matrices, but never with…
2000 — The Tandy 2000 pursued technical ambition beyond the IBM PC. Equipped with a 'next-generation' 16-bit CPU, it delivered performance that was 'noticeably faster' than the IBM…
3000 — The Tandy 3000 was positioned as a multiuser-capable business machine, explicitly engineered to run XENIX 5.0, a variant of AT&T Unix, enabling two to six users to access…