An article about Radio Shack

[Brian]

Dr Ido, though I predate their computers by a few years my first laptop was a Tandy 100 with accessory disk and cassette drive with the Scripsit and Multiplan roms. I used to download it into the TRS Model II with the 4 disk bay and eventually the 16 with 4 hard drives operating under Xenix with 6 Wyse 50 terminals for my law practice. My brother went the IBM route and was paying through the nose for his IBM word processor. I had accounting, billing, docket control, WestLaw, 1 of the 1st computer based tax programs, spreadsheets and a host of other programs as well as multi-tasking and multi-user ability when the IBM PC was still based on the 8088 and DOS.

In some was RS was a real leader in the industry but somewhere they lost their focus. I think had they concentrated on their computer market more and not tried to be all to everyone, we'd all be using either Apples or RS Clones (both based on Xenix/UNIX/Linux) today and MS would be a poor 3rd alternative.