John Roach — the former chief of RadioShack parent company Tandy who later became one of the lead proponents of the personal computer — has died at 83, reported The New York Times. The Fort Worth ...
The big picture: John Roach, a key figure in helping popularize the home computer in the late 70s, died this week at the age of 83. Roach joined the Tandy Corporation in 1967 at a time when it still ...
On August 3, 1977, Tandy announced its TRS-80 Model 1 PC via its Radio Shack stores, which helped to begin the personal computer technology revolution. Tandy later lost ground to other PC makers. It ...
Personal computer (PC) era pioneer John Roach passed away in Fort Worth, Texas, at 83. Though widely acknowledged as a marketing visionary, he is known to have played a pioneering role in ...
The Tandy Color Computer came with analog joysticks, quite unlike most computers and consoles of the early 1980s. Many games of the era actually worked best with digital input, so [Gadget Reboot] ...
Way back when, I played around alot with the Tandy Coco3 my family owned. It was a wonderful toy and learning device when I was very young, and I did some ...
This is way, way back old school. Back in the day in the '80s, when other kids had popular computers like the C= 64 or the Amiga, I had a Tandy Color Computer (aka Coco). It wasn't as popular and it ...