Gamasutra Feature Articles: Games from the Trash: The History of the TRS-80

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Games from the Trash: The History of the TRS-80 Nov 26th 2012, 05:00 Radio Shack's first computer was an underpowered but accessible and affordable unit -- and as with nearly any platform, quickly became home to games. In this retrospective, Gamasutra pays homage to a system beloved by many but mostly forgotten by everyone else. The TRS-80 Arrives In the mid-1970s, computer games as we know them today didn't really exist. There were coin-op arcade games, of course, just making the transition from analog circuitry to digital. And ...