Monitor, Radio Shack TRS-80 Monitor
Monitor, Radio Shack TRS-80 Monitor
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- Description
- 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.
- Object Name
- microcomputer monitor
- date made
- 1977-1981
- maker
- Tandy Corporation
- Physical Description
- plastic (case material)
- metal (circuitry material)
- Measurements
- overall: 30.5 cm x 42 cm x 29 cm; 12 in x 16 17/32 in x 11 13/32 in
- ID Number
- 1983.0169.02
- catalog number
- 1983.0169.02
- accession number
- 1983.0169
- Credit Line
- Gift of K.S. Widelitz
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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