RadioShack is the same old store.” Web-based competition and shifts ... in their car and produced a mass-market computer, the TRS-80, within months of Steve Jobs.

RadioShack can't escape the '80s One dealer said he opened a store four years ago with a $250,000 investment. It lost $100,000 over the first three years it was in business but finally broke even ...

This early consumer PC gained its name from a combination of the store name with that of its parent company, Tandy, resulting in "Tandy/RadioShack" or TRS. Logically, the machine gained its "80 ...

As RadioShack gets ready to shut most of its stores and layoff thousands of employees, one former shacker — and the editor of this site — looks back on one of the strangest pre-employment expe ...

Electronics retailer RadioShack has closed more than 1,000 stores since Memorial Day weekend ... radios or early laptop computers like the TRS-80. But like so many other retailers, it has become ...

When the TRS-80 — a personal computer from Tandy that would be sold via their RadioShack stores, hence TRS — went on sale on Aug. 3 in 1977, computers weren’t exactly new. The Apple I had ...

While the TRS-80 was hugely popular ... it also led to some serious problems for the company. RadioShack's stores essentially become cell phone kiosks, but signing up customers took about 45 ...

The '80s-themed "Phone Call" spot for RadioShack was a hit during this year's Super Bowl. And just a couple of days after it first aired, Radio Shack announced it was cutting 500 stores.

RadioShack took 30 pricey seconds Sunday to ... ironically, calling on some '80s icons. Gold medal-winning gymnast Mary Lou Retton, bedecked in in her red-white-and-blue leotard, muscled up ...

In what could now be seen as a last-ditch attempt to remake itself, RadioShack ran a commercial during the 2014 Super Bowl. "The '80s called, they want their store back," a store clerk says ...

In fact, a beloved retailer that was hugely popular in the '80s and '90s and once had over ... that he is "working to expand into a full store." RadioShack has been operating only through e ...