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Radio Shack's TRS-80 Model III
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I received one of these from parents when I finished the 8th grade in 1980. I think they got the base model though with 4KB of ram, it was "only" $999. I recorded programs onto a cassette tape. Fun!

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I received one of these from parents when I finished the 8th grade in 1980. I think they got the base model though with 4KB of ram, it was "only" $999. I recorded programs onto a cassette tape. Fun!

Ooh, TWO drives, so you could boot from one and work from the other!
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I received one of these from parents when I finished the 8th grade in 1980. I think they got the base model though with 4KB of ram, it was "only" $999. I recorded programs onto a cassette tape. Fun!

Glorious graphics! /s
Inflation calculator says $2500 then is similar to $8000 today.
Funny thing, those floppy drives, 175K x 2. Both together are still a small fraction of a single web page, for many sites in 2026. Multi-megabyte web pages are very common.
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I received one of these from parents when I finished the 8th grade in 1980. I think they got the base model though with 4KB of ram, it was "only" $999. I recorded programs onto a cassette tape. Fun!

Upper AND lower case letters?
"How'd they do that?!"
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I received one of these from parents when I finished the 8th grade in 1980. I think they got the base model though with 4KB of ram, it was "only" $999. I recorded programs onto a cassette tape. Fun!

Iconic design. Still want to make a cyberdeck from one but even a husk is $400. So, no.
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I received one of these from parents when I finished the 8th grade in 1980. I think they got the base model though with 4KB of ram, it was "only" $999. I recorded programs onto a cassette tape. Fun!

very arguably radio shack assuming they had made the perfect computer (this) and no one would ever want more computer in the future is exactly why there's still Apple and there's not still Radio Shack
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I received one of these from parents when I finished the 8th grade in 1980. I think they got the base model though with 4KB of ram, it was "only" $999. I recorded programs onto a cassette tape. Fun!

I already had a computer when I started computer science in the ninth grade. These bad boys were fun to play with. The teacher who was a very smart guy quickly gave up trying to keep me from typing away. I spent most of my time porting basic games from magazines to these. There were a lot of copies of my floppy making the rounds if you know what I mean.
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I already had a computer when I started computer science in the ninth grade. These bad boys were fun to play with. The teacher who was a very smart guy quickly gave up trying to keep me from typing away. I spent most of my time porting basic games from magazines to these. There were a lot of copies of my floppy making the rounds if you know what I mean.
porting basic games from magazines to these.
Same! Lunar Lander, a maze generator, so many. And I even started to learn about Assembly language but that turned out to be too hard for me at that age.
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Iconic design. Still want to make a cyberdeck from one but even a husk is $400. So, no.
That would be the world heaviest cyberdeck, haha
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That would be the world heaviest cyberdeck, haha
True! hmm. Cyber-conversation-piece?
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porting basic games from magazines to these.
Same! Lunar Lander, a maze generator, so many. And I even started to learn about Assembly language but that turned out to be too hard for me at that age.
On the trash 80 I had to do a lot of work to find the memory region for the display. It didn't take that long but many of the games I ported used peek and poke statement to write the screen. Doing it was fun in a way nothing today can be. Its either too simple or way too complex these days.
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very arguably radio shack assuming they had made the perfect computer (this) and no one would ever want more computer in the future is exactly why there's still Apple and there's not still Radio Shack
The ad specifically says "perfect starter system"?
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I received one of these from parents when I finished the 8th grade in 1980. I think they got the base model though with 4KB of ram, it was "only" $999. I recorded programs onto a cassette tape. Fun!

I was 11 years old when I learned BASIC programming on one of these in 7th grade. I loved it and it led to my career.
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True! hmm. Cyber-conversation-piece?
I think we call that a "desktop computer."
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I received one of these from parents when I finished the 8th grade in 1980. I think they got the base model though with 4KB of ram, it was "only" $999. I recorded programs onto a cassette tape. Fun!

I call that advertising text "Yuppie Font"
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The ad specifically says "perfect starter system"?
there were add ons for the TRS-80, but Radio Shack assumed they'd never have to make an updated core system
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