July 31: TRS-80 Model III – Day in Tech History

July 31: TRS-80 Model III – Day in Tech History

July 30th, 2010 | Author: Jeffrey Powers - @geekazine

Radio Shack released a few new TRS-80 line computers in 1980. One was the introduction of Model III. It contained a Zilog Z80 processor and 4 kb of RAM> The price was only $699.

Then again, you could get the TRS-80 for $399 with the Motorola 6809E CPU, or the TRS-80 Pocket computer for $230

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July 31: TRS-80 Model III – Day in Tech History

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