{"id":14652,"date":"2018-08-05T23:17:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T23:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/radio-shack-introduces-trs-80\/"},"modified":"2018-08-05T23:17:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T23:17:26","slug":"radio-shack-introduces-trs-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/radio-shack-introduces-trs-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Shack Introduces TRS-80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1921 alignright\" title=\"TRS-80\" alt=\"TRS-80\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/698f0__trs80-i-300x197.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/698f0__trs80-i-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/trs80-i.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>August 3, 1977<\/p>\n<p>Radio Shack introduces their first computer, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TRS-80\" target=\"_blank\">TRS-80<\/a>. With the support of 3500 Radio Shack stores plus a relatively low cost, the TRS-80 helped drive the acceptance of the personal computer in the home. Originally forecasting sales of just 3,000 to 5,000 per year, the TRS-80 sold over 10,000 units in the first month-and-a-half of sales and 200,000 over the lifetime of the product.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/08\/03\/radio-shack-introduces-trs-80\/\">Radio Shack Introduces TRS-80<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/08\/03\/radio-shack-introduces-trs-80\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 3, 1977 Radio Shack introduces their first computer, the TRS-80. With the support of 3500 Radio Shack stores plus a relatively low cost, the TRS-80 helped drive the acceptance of the personal computer in the home. Originally forecasting sales of just 3,000 to 5,000 per year, the TRS-80 sold over 10,000 units in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[381,1771,3107,3359],"class_list":["post-14652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-introduces","tag-radio","tag-shack","tag-trs80"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}