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unusual facts about Radio Shack



Cassette magazine

Since the common data storage medium of the earliest home computers was the audio cassette, the first magazine published on a physical computer medium was cassette magazine; CLOAD magazine, for the Radio Shack TRS-80 computer, began publication in 1978, named after the command to load a program from cassette on that computer system.

Centerville, Georgia

Other major retailers in the mall include American Eagle, Radio Shack, GameStop, GNC, Victoria's Secret, FYE, Hibbett Sports, as well as various smaller brand stores and eateries.

Laura Alemán

Made commercial for Burger King, Ana G. Mendez, Radio Shack, McDonald, Medalla Light, Transit Authority, Pan Pepin and the most recent T-Mobile Flash puppy with director Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz known for his film EVIL LOVES decisions and the campaign of the People's Bank directed by Marcos Zurinaga.

Michael Dell

At age 15, after playing with computers at Radio Shack, he got his first computer, an Apple II, which he promptly disassembled to see how it worked.

Trash80

The name "Trash80" is a reference to a slang term for the Tandy / Radio Shack computer model (now defunct) TRS-80 (model 1/2/3/4/4p).

TV Scoreboard

The TV Scoreboard is a Pong-like game console manufactured from 1976 through the early '80s and made by Tandy. Distribution was handled exclusively by Radio Shack. The machines were constructed in Hong Kong. The TV Scoreboard consisted of a left and right player, with dials or paddles on the hand held piece, and had multiple Pong era games.


see also

Coco3

TRS-80 Color Computer, the third version of a home computer launched by Radio shack

Craft access system

The developer, Muchiri Motilewa, designed and coded the proof-of-concept prototype on a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 computer in BASIC and a DEC VAX-11/780 Unix machine in C and Shell.

Kitchen Table International

Although not as pointed as the classic The Devil’s DP Dictionary by Stan Kelly-Bootle, the book, and the Kitchen Table International columns it was largely based upon, poked fun at the foibles of companies like Apple Computer, Radio Shack, Commodore, and Atari in an era when the early computer magazines were filled with technical articles, code listings, and discussions of the latest and greatest hardware, and not much regular humor.

Laura Alemán

It took two months and had already recorded her first commercial for Radio Shack for Latin America and a movie with the director Marcos Zurinaga to ASSMCA named Lucia, Ignacio and Other Stories.

Operational amplifier

Engineer's Mini-Notebook – OpAmp IC Circuits; Forrest Mims III; Radio Shack; 49 pages; 1985; ASIN B000DZG196.