TRS-80 Model II Microcomputer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1979
name: label: maker
content: Tandy Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Radio Shack introduced the Tandy TRS-80 Model II as a microcomputer developed specifically for small businesses. A 1979 newsletter proclaimed that “It operates at twice the speed of the TRS-80 Model I and has disk storage space expandable up to almost two million bytes.” The mass storage was 8” 500 kilobyte floppy disks.
label: Description
content: The TRS-80 was manufactured between 1980 and 1984 in the USA by Tandy. The processor is a 4MHz Z80A and was available with either 32 or 64 kilabytes of RAM. The retail prices started at $3,450.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Radio Shack Microcomputer Newslatter, July, 1979.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: David A Feindel
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0147.1
label: accession number
content: 2009.0147
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0147.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microcomputer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: computer: 14 1/4 in x 21 3/16 in x 17 in; 36.195 cm x 53.81625 cm x 43.18 cm
label: Measurements
content: keyboard: 7 1/2 in x 17 7/8 in x 7 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 45.4025 cm x 19.05 cm