Hacky Shack? The TRS-80 Model 1 Story

The TRS-80 Model I took the world by storm. It had a 70% market share the year it launched, and they sold 100,000 machines in 1978, far outstripping its rivals. Yet by the early 1980s Radio Shack’s line of home computers was becoming irrelevant. How did a company that hadn’t even looked at a computer a year before it launched the TRS-80 create something so highly effective on their first try, and how did it become out of date so quickly? If you'd like to support what I do please consider supporting me below: PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/bigcartv Big Car merch: https://teespring.com/stores/bigcartv Link to my other channel - Big Car: https://https://www.youtube.com/bigcar2 Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rD0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA40 http://www.trs-80.org/trs80-introduction-part1/ http://www.trs-80.org/trs80-introduction-part2/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog https://archive.org/details/TRS80ModelIPreliminaryUsersManual https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-vision/apple-vision-pro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_D._Tandy https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingv03n05SeptOct1977/page/n93 https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine-1987-08/page/n53 #littlecar