Tandy Bears Christmas - Part 2

Tandy computers were basically the backbone of early home computing if you were cruising through RadioShack in the ‘80s and ‘90s. It all kicked off with the TRS-80 in 1977—one of the first mass-market personal computers—before Tandy rolled out upgrades like the Color Computer (CoCo) in 1980 and the beefier Tandy 1000 series in 1984, which gave IBM PC compatibility a more affordable twist. Through the late ‘80s and into the early ‘90s, you saw steady improvements: better graphics, more memory, faster processors, and eventually models running full MS-DOS and Windows. By the mid-’90s, though, Tandy couldn’t keep up with the big PC brands, and the line quietly faded out. For anyone who grew up on cassette-loaded games, clunky keyboards, and green-screen BASIC, Tandy still hits that perfect nostalgia button.