Radio Shack TRS-80 Microcomputer Monitor
date: label: date made
content: 1977-1981
name: label: maker
content: Tandy Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Don French, a buyer for the consumer electronics chain Tandy Radio Shack (TRS), believed that Radio Shack should offer an assembled personal computer and hired engineer Steve Leininger to design it. In the summer of 1977, Radio Shack introduced the TRS-80 for $599. You could purchase the computer without a display for $399.95, but the most common configuration was buying the computer, monitor, and datacassette recorder for $599. For the accompanying keyboard and computer, see 1983.0169.01.
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of K.S. Widelitz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0169.02
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0169.02
label: accession number
content: 1983.0169
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microcomputer monitor
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30.5 cm x 42 cm x 29 cm; 12 in x 16 17/32 in x 11 13/32 in